Can secondary contact following range expansion be distinguished from barriers to gene flow?
Secondary contact is the reestablishment of gene flow between sister populations that have diverged. For instance, at the end of the Quaternary glaciations in Europe, secondary contact occurred during the northward expansion of the populations which had found refugia in the southern peninsulas. With...
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PeerJ Inc.
2018-10-01
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