Population structure and demographic history of the chukar partridge Alectoris chukar in China

• Main Author: Sen SONG,Shijie BAO,Ying WANG,Xinkang BAO,Bei AN,Xiaoli WANG,Naifa LIU
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2013
• Subjects: Alectoris chukar; Gene flow; Mismatch distribution; mtDNA control region; Population expansion; Zoology; QL1-991; Chukar; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/c4f02109bf84468a995867f36cf48781

Pleistocene climate fluctuations have shaped the patterns of genetic diversity observed in extant species. Although the effects of recent glacial cycles on genetic diversity have been well studied on species in Europe and North America, genetic legacy of species in the Pleistocene in north and north...