The high Andes, gene flow and a stable hybrid zone shape the genetic structure of a wide-ranging South American parrot
Open Access
- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Frontiers in Zoology
- Vol. 8 (1), 16
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-8-16
Abstract
While the gene flow in some organisms is strongly affected by physical barriers and geographical distance, other highly mobile species are able to overcome such constraints. In southern South America, the Andes (here up to 6,900 m) may constitute a formidable barrier to dispersal. In addition, this region was affected by cycles of intercalating arid/moist periods during the Upper/Late Pleistocene and Holocene. These factors may have been crucial in driving the phylogeographic structure of the vertebrate fauna of the region. Here we test these hypotheses in the burrowing parrot Cyanoliseus patagonus (Aves, Psittaciformes) across its wide distributional range in Chile and Argentina.Keywords
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