Population Processes of Genetic Divergence in Palearctic Buzzards During the Late Pleistocene: Advance Report

Abstract

Our study illustrates how complex population processes over the Late Pleistocene have shaped the patterns of genetic divergence in Palearctic buzzards, due to the effects of population expansions and contractions, with hybridization at contact zones leading to admixture, introgression and incomplete lineage sorting. Here we report in advance the study that is being currently ultimated for publication.

Keywords

• birds of prey
• buteo
• genetic