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Deep Phylogeographic Breaks in Magpie Pica pica Across the Holarctic: Concordance with Bioacoustics and Phenotypes.
Zoological science - 1 Jun 2017
Kryukov Alexey P, Spiridonova Liudmila N, Mori Sayaka, Arkhipov Vladimir Yu, Red'kin Yaroslav A, Goroshko Oleg A, Lobkov Evgeny G, Haring Elisabeth
Abstract excerpt
We examined sequences of the mitochondrial control region in magpies (Pica pica) from the entire distribution range and found deep genetic splits into four major lineages: (1) group West (Europe-Siberia), (2) group East (southern Far East), (3) P. p. mauritanica (North Africa), and (4) P. p. hudsonia (North America). These lineages show a geographic pattern corresponding to known subspecies or subspecies groups....
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