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Asymmetric migration shapes genetic structure of the invasive avian vampire fly ( <i>Philornis downsi</i> ) across the Galápagos Islands

2026-07-03

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Biological invasions on islands provide a natural framework to study how dispersal and connectivity influence evolutionary and ecological processes. The avian nest parasitic fly, Philornis downsi – first recorded in Darwin’s finch nests in 1997 – causes high mortality in endemic land birds, yet its inter-island and sex-specific patterns of dispersal and genetic structure remain poorly understood. We use low-cover...

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DOI: 10.64898/2026.07.03.735711

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