Widespread hybridization between the Greater Spotted Eagle Aquila clanga and the Lesser Spotted Eagle Aquila pomarina (Aves: Accipitriformes) in Europe

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 725-736

  Väli, ÜLo ^a,b   Dombrovski, Valery ^c   Treinys, Rimgaudas ^d   Bergmanis, Ugis ^e   Daróczi, Szilárd J ^f   Dravecky, Miroslav ^e   Ivanovski, Vladimir ^g   Lontkowski, Jan ^h   Maciorowski, Grzegorz ⁱ   Meyburg, Bernd ulrich ^j   Mizera, Tadeusz ⁱ   Zeitz, Róbert ^f   Ellegren, Hans ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^c INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS   (Belarus)

^d Nature Research Centre   (Lithuania)

^e Nature Reserve Teiči ^*  (Slovakia)

^f Milvus Group   (Romania)

^g APB Birds Conservation Belarus   (Belarus)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

ⁱ POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^j World Working Group on Birds of Prey   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Avian hybridization; Extinction; Hybrid identification; Introgression; Microsatellites; Raptor; Single nucleotide polymorphism; Spotted eagles

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; GENETIC MARKER; HYBRID ZONE; HYBRIDIZATION; INBREEDING; INTROGRESSION; POLYMORPHISM; RAPTOR; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SYMPATRY;

EASTERN EUROPE;

ACCIPITRIDAE; AQUILA CLANGA; AQUILA POMARINA; AVES; FALCONIFORMES; RAPTORES;

EID: 77954407362     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01455.x     Document Type: Article

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