Cultural transmission and genomic co-divergence in the willow tit across the Palearctic
Athena Syarifa, Jochen Martens, Martin Päckert, Laura Kvist, Lei Wu, Yue‐Hua Sun, Jochen B. W. Wolf, Ulrich Knief
The paper investigates how culturally transmitted song in willow tits influences genomic divergence across the Palearctic, finding that song types correlate with genomic lineages and gene flow patterns.
bioRxiv · Apr 24, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology