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A hitchhikers guide to the Galápagos: co-phylogeography of Galápagos mockingbirds and their parasites.
BMC evolutionary biology - 3 Oct 2011
Štefka Jan, Hoeck Paquita E A, Keller Lukas F, Smith Vincent S
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BACKGROUND: Parasites are evolutionary hitchhikers whose phylogenies often track the evolutionary history of their hosts. Incongruence in the evolutionary history of closely associated lineages can be explained through a variety of possible events including host switching and host independent speciation. However, in recently diverged lineages stochastic population processes, such as retention of ancestral...
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