Combining species delimitation, species trees, and tests for gene flow clarifies complex speciation in scrub-jays

DA DeRaad, JE McCormack, N Chen… - Systematic …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Complex speciation, involving rapid divergence and multiple bouts of post-divergence gene
flow, can obfuscate phylogenetic relationships and species limits. In North America, cases of …

De novo assembly of a chromosome-level reference genome for the California Scrub-Jay, Aphelocoma californica

DA DeRaad, M Escalona, PM Benham… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We announce the assembly of the first de novo reference genome for the California Scrub-
Jay (Aphelocoma californica). The genus Aphelocoma comprises four currently recognized …

Morphology, vocalizations, and mitochondrial DNA suggest that the Graceful Prinia is two species

P Alström, PC Rasmussen, C **a, L Zhang, C Liu… - The Auk, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Prinias (Cisticolidae: Prinia) are resident warblers of open areas across Africa and
Asia and include many polytypic species whose species limits have not been seriously …

Phenotypic variation and weak behavioral isolation in a putative hybrid zone between Andean Atlapetes brushfinches (Passerellidae)

G Munoz-Quintana, AM Cuervo - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Individuals in the contact zone between hybridizing species often exhibit intermediate
phenotypes that vary smoothly in a clinal fashion from one species to the other. However …

Differential Introgression Between the Northern and Southern Extents of the Lodgepole x Jack Pine Hybrid Zone Suggests Environmentally-driven Selection and Local …

DD Yaremchuk - 2023 - repository.library.carleton.ca
Lodgepole and jack pine form a mosaic hybrid zone in western Canada. Introgression
occurs between lodgepole and jack pine through this hybrid zone by repeated backcrossing …