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Demographic history, genetic structure and gene flow in a steppe-associated raptor species.
BMC evolutionary biology - 17 Nov 2011
Garcia Jesus T, Alda Fernando, Terraube Julien, Mougeot François, Sternalski Audrey, Bretagnolle Vincent, Arroyo Beatriz
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BACKGROUND: Environmental preferences and past climatic changes may determine the length of time during which a species range has contracted or expanded from refugia, thereby influencing levels of genetic diversification. Connectivity among populations of steppe-associated taxa might have been maximal during the long glacial periods, and interrupted only during the shorter interglacial phases, potentially...
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