Disentangling the complex evolutionary history of the Western Palearctic blue tits (Cyanistes spp.) - phylogenomic analyses suggest radiation by multiple colonization events and subsequent isolation.

Abstract excerpt

Isolated islands and their often unique biota continue to play key roles for understanding the importance of drift, genetic variation and adaptation in the process of population differentiation and speciation. One island system that has inspired and intrigued evolutionary biologists is the blue tit complex (Cyanistes spp.) in Europe and Africa, in particular the complex evolutionary history of the multiple...

Topics

• Africa
• Animals
• Bayes Theorem
• Biological Evolution
• Genetics, Population
• Models, Genetic
• Molecular Sequence Data
• Passeriformes
• Phylogeny
• Phylogeography