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Elsevier, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 3(57), p. 1312-1318, 2010

DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.09.009

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Toward a resolution of a taxonomic enigma: first genetic analyses of Paradoxornis webbianus and Paradoxornis alphonsianus (Aves: Paradoxornithidae) from China and Italy

Journal article published in 2010 by Angelica Crottini ORCID, Andrea Galimberti ORCID, Alberto Boto, Lorenzo Serra ORCID, Yang Liu, Carol Yeung, Xiaojun Yang, Michela Barbuto, Maurizio Casiraghi ORCID, Maurizio Casiraghia
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Abstract

Paradoxornis webbianus and Paradoxornis alphonsianus naturally occur in South-East Asia. Due to a recent introduction, a mixed population currently occurs in northern Italy. A preliminary phylogeographic analysis using samples from Italy and China found little genetic differentiation between the two taxa and revealed the existence of two molecular lineages, sympatric in some part of China, that do not correspond to the morphological classification. Possible taxonomic changes and preliminary inferences on the relationships between Chinese and the Italian populations and on the likely provenance of the founders introduced in Italy are also discussed.