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| Title |
Long-term isolation of a highly mobile seabird on the Galapagos
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| Published in |
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, September 2010
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| DOI | 10.1098/rspb.2010.1342 |
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| Authors |
Frank Hailer, E. A. Schreiber, Joshua M. Miller, Iris I. Levin, Patricia G. Parker, R. Terry Chesser, Robert C. Fleischer |
| Abstract |
The Galapagos Islands are renowned for their high degree of endemism. Marine taxa inhabiting the archipelago might be expected to be an exception, because of their utilization of pelagic habitats-the dispersal barrier for terrestrial taxa-as foraging grounds. Magnificent frigatebirds (Fregata magnificens) have a highly vagile lifestyle and wide geographical distribution around the South and Central American coasts. Given the potentially high levels of gene flow among populations, the species provides a good test of the effectiveness of the Galapagos ecosystem in isolating populations of highly dispersive marine species. We studied patterns of genetic (mitochondrial DNA, microsatellites and nuclear introns) and morphological variation across the distribution of magnificent frigatebirds. Concordant with predictions from life-history traits, we found signatures of extensive gene flow over most of the range, even across the Isthmus of Panama, which is a major barrier to gene flow in other tropical seabirds. In contrast, individuals from the Galapagos were strongly differentiated from all conspecifics, and have probably been isolated for several hundred thousand years. Our finding is a powerful testimony to the evolutionary uniqueness of the taxa inhabiting the Galapagos archipelago and its associated marine ecosystems. |
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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 116 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 3% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Ecuador | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 104 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 26 | 22% |
| Researcher | 22 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 14 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 9% |
| Other | 9 | 8% |
| Other | 25 | 22% |
| Unknown | 10 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 63 | 54% |
| Environmental Science | 15 | 13% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 8 | 7% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 3 | 3% |
| Unspecified | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 11 | 9% |
| Unknown | 13 | 11% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 33. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 December 2014.
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