Demographic history and divergence of sibling grouse species inferred from whole genome sequencing reveal past effects of climate change

Abstract Background The boreal forest is one of the largest biomes on earth, supporting thousands of species. The global climate fluctuations in the Quaternary, especially the ice ages, had a significant influence on the distribution of boreal forest, as well as the divergence and evolution of speci...

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Main Authors: Kai Song, Bin Gao, Peter Halvarsson, Yun Fang, Siegfried Klaus, Ying-Xin Jiang, Jon E. Swenson, Yue-Hua Sun, Jacob Höglund
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-10-01
Series:BMC Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01921-7