Article
Extremely reduced dispersal and gene flow in an island bird.
Heredity - 1 Feb 2014
Bertrand J A M, Bourgeois Y X C, Delahaie B, Duval T, García-Jiménez R, Cornuault J, Heeb P, Milá B, Pujol B, Thébaud C
Abstract excerpt
The Réunion grey white-eye, Zosterops borbonicus, a passerine bird endemic to Réunion Island in the Mascarene archipelago, represents an extreme case of microgeographical plumage colour variation in birds, with four distinct colour forms occupying different parts of this small island (2512 km(2)). To understand whether such population differentiation may reflect low levels of dispersal and gene flow at a very...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Birds
- Cluster Analysis
- Evolution, Molecular
- Female
- Gene Flow
- Genetic Loci
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Genotype
- Geography