Genetic analyses reveal hybridization but no hybrid swarm in one of the world's rarest birds

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Genetic analyses reveal hybridization but no hybrid swarm in one of the world's rarest birds

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University of Otago

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Otago University Research Archive

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Hybridization facilitated by human activities has dramatically altered the evolutionary trajectories of threatened taxa around the globe. Whereas introduced mammalian predators and widespread habitat loss and degradation clearly imperil the recovery and survival of the New Zealand endemic black stilt or kakī (Himantopus novaezelandiae), the risk associated with hybridization between this critically endangered endemic and its self-introduced congener, the pied stilt or poaka (Himantopus himant...

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Research paper

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Article

Date created

2010-12

Creator

Steeves, Tammy E / Maloney, Richard F / Hale, Marie L / Tylianakis, Jason M / Gemmell, Neil J

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/32434

Related subjects

Animals / Bayes Theorem / Birds - genetics / Chimera / Conservation of Natural Resources / DNA, Mitochondrial - genetics / Endangered Species / Evolution, Molecular / Female / Genetic Speciation / Genetics, Population / Hybridization, Genetic / Introduced Species / Male / Microsatellite Repeats / New Zealand / Sequence Analysis, DNA

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