Continent-scale genetic structure in a boreal forest migrant, the Blackpoll Warbler (Setophaga striata)

Auk

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 467-478

  Ralston, Joel ^a,b,c   Kirchman, Jeremy J ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

^c UTICA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blackpoll Warbler; Boreal forest; Coalescent analysis; Migratory birds; Mitochondrial DNA; Pleistocene refugia; Population genetics; Setophaga striata; Statistical phylogeography

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PASSERINE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION GENETICS; REFUGIUM;

NORTH AMERICA;

AVES; DENDROICA STRIATA; PASSERIFORMES; SETOPHAGA;

EID: 84864674605     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/auk.2012.11260     Document Type: Article

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