Article
Hybrid speciation in sparrows II: a role for sex chromosomes?
Molecular ecology - 1 Sept 2011
Elgvin Tore O, Hermansen Jo S, Fijarczyk Anna, Bonnet Timothée, Borge Thomas, Saether Stein A, Voje Kjetil L, Saetre Glenn-Peter
Abstract excerpt
Homoploid hybrid speciation in animals is poorly understood, mainly because of the scarcity of well-documented cases. Here, we present the results of a multilocus sequence analysis on the house sparrow (Passer domesticus), Spanish sparrow (P. hispaniolensis) and their proposed hybrid descendant, the Italian sparrow (P. italiae). The Italian sparrow is shown to be genetically intermediate between the house sparrow...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Cluster Analysis
- DNA Primers
- Europe
- Gene Flow
- Genetic Speciation
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Haplotypes
- Hybridization, Genetic