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Australian Journal of Zoology Australian Journal of Zoology Society
Evolutionary, molecular and comparative zoology
RESEARCH ARTICLE (Open Access)

Genomic data show little geographical structure across the naturally fragmented range of the purple-gaped honeyeater

Leo Joseph https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7564-1978 A C , Catriona D. Campbell A , Lynn Pedler B and Alex Drew A
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A Australian National Wildlife Collection, CSIRO National Research Collections Australia, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.

B PO Box 58, Koolunga, SA 5464, Australia.

C Corresponding author. Email: leo.joseph@csiro.au

Australian Journal of Zoology 67(4) 226-230 https://doi.org/10.1071/ZO20074
Submitted: 13 August 2020  Accepted: 11 December 2020   Published: 23 December 2020

Journal compilation © CSIRO 2019 Open Access CC BY-NC-ND

Abstract

Using single nucleotide polymorphisms and mitochondrial DNA sequences we find some evidence of genetic structure within a widespread and naturally fragmented species, the purple-gaped honeyeater (Lichenostomus cratitius), of southern Australian mallee shrublands. The very earliest stages of differentiation either side of the Nullarbor Barrier may already have been arrested by gene flow, some of which may have been anthropogenically induced.

Keywords: purple-gaped honeyeater, honeyeater, phylogeography, Nullarbor Barrier, Eyrean Barrier, southern Australia, Lichenostomus.


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