A cryptic contact zone between divergent mitochondrial DNA lineages in southwestern North America supports past introgressive hybridization in the yellow-rumped warbler complex (Aves: Dendroica coronata)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 696-706

  Milá, Borja ^a,c   Toews, David P L ^b   Smith, Thomas B ^c   Wayne, Robert K ^c  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecomorphology ; Genetic diversity; Haplotype cline; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; COMMON ANCESTRY; ECOMORPHOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE FLOW; HYBRIDIZATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PASSERINE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLUMAGE; SAMPLING; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ARIZONA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

AVES; DENDROICA; DENDROICA CORONATA;

EID: 79959252367     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01661.x     Document Type: Article

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