Regionally divergent drivers of historical diversification in the late Quaternary in a widely distributed generalist species, the common pheasant Phasianus colchicus
S. Liu, Y. Liu, E. Jelen, M. Alibadian, C.-t. Yao, X. Li, N. Kayvanfar, Y. Wang, F. Vahidi, J. Han, G. Sundev, Z. Zhang, M. Schweizer
This study identifies eight distinct evolutionary lineages in the common pheasant, revealing regionally divergent drivers of diversification and suggesting the species should be split into three species.
bioRxiv · Dec 21, 2019Evolutionary Biology