Independent evolution of intermediate bill widths in a seabird clade

• Published in: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
• Main Authors: Masello, Juan, Ryan, Peter, Shepherd, Lara, Quillfeldt, Petra, Cherel, Yves, Tennyson, Alan, Alderman, Rachael, Calderón, Luciano, Cole, Theresa, Cuthbert, Richard, Dilley, Ben, Massaro, Melanie, Miskelly, Colin, Navarro, Joan, Phillips, Richard, Weimerskirch, Henri, Moodley, Yoshan
• Other Authors: Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU), FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town-DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC), Université de La Rochelle (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Department of Primary Industries, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, School of Environmental Sciences and Institute for Land, Water and Society Albury, Australia, Charles Sturt University Australia, Institut de Ciències del Mar ICM-CSIC Barcelona, Spain, British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Department of Zoology South Africa (University of Venda), University of Venda
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2022
• Subjects: Convergent evolution; Gough Island; MacGillivray’s prion; Pachyptila; Procellariidae; Procellariiformes; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Antarctic; Gough; Indian; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03512515; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00438-021-01845-3

International audience Abstract Interspecific introgression can occur between species that evolve rapidly within an adaptive radiation. Pachyptila petrels differ in bill size and are characterised by incomplete reproductive isolation, leading to interspecific gene flow. Salvin’s prion ( Pachyptila s...