Dovetail helps shed light into the outcomes of secondary contact & its consequences for conservation of duck species from generalist species Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 17 min 66 sec
✓ Published: 10-Jan-2021

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Presented by Philip Lavretsky, PhD, University of Texas, El PasonnSecondary contact between diverging or divergent lineages can have a myriad of immediate and future consequences for interacting groups that span the speciation continuum from species barrier reinforcement to speciation reversal. The Mallard Complex is comprised of 14 species of closely related mallard-like ducks that radiated around the world in the last million years. Among the species, the mallard is well-known by bird enthusia