Population genomics of the island thrush elucidates one of earth's great archipelagic radiations.

ABSTRACT: Tropical islands are renowned as natural laboratories for evolutionary study. Lineage radiations across tropical archipelagos are ideal systems for investigating how colonization, speciation, and extinction processes shape biodiversity patterns. The expansion of the island thrush across the Indo-Pacific represents one of the largest yet most perplexing island radiations of any songbird species. The island thrush exhibits a complex mosaic of pronounced plumage variation across its range and is arguably the world's most polytypic bird. It is a sedentary species largely restricted to mountain forests, yet it has colonized a vast island region spanning a quarter of the globe. We conducted a comprehensive sampling of island thrush populations and obtained genome-wide SNP data, which we used to

SUBMITTER: Reeve AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10091502 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature