Concordant and discordant signals between genetic data and described subspecies of pacific coast song sparrows

Condor

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 359-364

  Pruett, Christin L ^a,b   Arcese, Peter ^c   Chan, Yvonne L ^d   Wilson, Amy G ^c   Patten, Michael A ^a   Keller, Lukas F ^e   Winker, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Geographic variation; Melospiza melodia; Microsatellites; Population genetics; Subspecies

Indexed keywords

AVES; MELOSPIZA; MELOSPIZA MELODIA;

EID: 67649866213     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2008.8475     Document Type: Article

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