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Can demographic histories explain long-term isolation and recent pulses of asymmetric gene flow between highly divergent grey fox lineages?
Molecular ecology - 1 Oct 2023
Preckler-Quisquater Sophie, Kierepka Elizabeth M, Reding Dawn M, Piaggio Antoinette J, Sacks Benjamin N
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Secondary contact zones between deeply divergent, yet interfertile, lineages provide windows into the speciation process. North American grey foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) are divided into western and eastern lineages that diverged approximately 1 million years ago. These ancient lineages currently hybridize in a relatively narrow zone of contact in the southern Great Plains, a pattern more commonly observed...
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