Independent evolution of intermediate bill widths in a seabird clade

• Published in: Molecular Genetics and Genomics
• Main Authors: Masello, Juan F., Ryan, Peter G., Shepherd, Lara D., Quillfeldt, Petra, Cherel, Yves, Tennyson, Alan J. D., Alderman, Rachael, Calderón, Luciano, Cole, Theresa L., Cuthbert, Richard J., Dilley, Ben J., Massaro, Melanie, Miskelly, Colin M., Navarro, Joan, Phillips, Richard A., Weimerskirch, Henri, Moodley, Yoshan
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
• Subjects: Original Article; Antarctic; Gough; Indian; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8803701/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34921614; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00438-021-01845-3

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 salvini), whose bill width is inte...