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How New World blackbirds conquered the Americas

Where did the roughly 100 species of New World blackbirds alive today originate, and how did they spread across the Americas? Dr. Axel Arango Garcia and professor Chaitanya S. Gokhale from the Chair for Computational and Theoretical Biology (CCTB) at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) hav...

How New World blackbirds conquered the Americas
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Where did the roughly 100 species of New World blackbirds alive today originate, and how did they spread across the Americas? Dr. Axel Arango Garcia and professor Chaitanya S. Gokhale from the Chair for Computational and Theoretical Biology (CCTB) at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) have reconstructed the evolutionary history of this family of birds.

Originally published at Phys.org

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