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Molecular phylogeny of the Indian Ocean Terpsiphone paradise flycatchers: undetected evolutionary diversity revealed amongst island populations.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 May 2013
Bristol Rachel M, Fabre Pierre-Henri, Irestedt Martin, Jønsson Knud A, Shah Nirmal J, Tatayah Vikash, Warren Ben H, Groombridge Jim J
Abstract excerpt
We construct a molecular phylogeny of Terpsiphone flycatchers of the Indian Ocean and use this to investigate their evolutionary relationships. A total of 4.4 kb of mitochondrial (cyt-b, ND3, ND2, control region) and nuclear (G3PDH, MC1R) sequence data were obtained from all species, sub-species and island populations of the region. Colonisation of the western Indian Ocean has been within the last two million...
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