Island biogeography revisited: museomics reveals affinities of shelf island birds determined by bathymetry and paleo-rivers, not by distance to mainland by Kritika M. Garg, Balaji Chattopadhyay, Emilie Cros, Suzanne Tomassi, Suzan Benedick, David P. Edwards, Frank E. Rheindt

“…A key question is whether these predictions follow at a population-genomic level. Using rigorous ancient-DNA protocols, we retrieved approximately 1,000 genomic markers from approximately 100 historic specimens of two Southeast Asian songbird complexes from across the Sunda Shelf archipelago collected 1893–1957. …”
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