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    Genetic Variation and Differentiation in Mexican Populations of Common Bush-Tanagers and Chestnut-Capped Brush-Finches

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    1992-02-01
    Author
    Peterson, A. Townsend
    Escalante P., Patricia
    Navarro-Sigüenza, Adolfo G.
    Publisher
    University of California Press
    Type
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    Article Version
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    Abstract
    Genetic differentiation among four Mexican populations each of Common Bush-tanagers (Chlorospingus ophthalmicus) and Chestnut-capped Brush-finches (Atlapetes brunneinucha) was evaluated using allozyme electrophoresis. In both species, although levels of within-population variation are moderate, among-population variation is extreme, including fixed differences among populations. Genetic variation is significantly reduced in some populations on the smallest habitat islands. Differentiation is apparently unrelated to geographic distance among populations, and effects of habitat island size and isolation on genetic differentiation are not clear. Populations of the Sierra de los Tuxtlas in Veracruz, however, are strongly differentiated in both species.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1808/16634
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.2307/1368813
    ISSN
    0010-5422
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    • Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Scholarly Works [738]
    • Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Scholarly Works [1516]
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    Peterson, A. Townsend; Escalante P., Patricia; Navarro S., Adolfo. (1992). "Genetic Variation and Differentiation in Mexican Populations of Common Bush-Tanagers and Chestnut-Capped Brush-Finches." Condor, 94(1):242-251. http://www.dx.doi.org/10.2307/1368813.

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