The herring gull complex is not a ring species

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1542, 2004, Pages 893-901

  Liebers, Dorit ^a,c   De Knijff, Peter ^b   Helbig, Andreas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytochrome b gene; Larus argentatus complex; Mitochondrial control region; Phylogeography; Ring species model; Speciation

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SEABIRD; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ALLOPATRY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; HERRING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CLUPEA HARENGUS; LARUS; LARUS ARGENTATUS; LARUS FUSCUS; LARUS SMITHSONIANUS;

EID: 2342582125     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2679     Document Type: Article

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