Map of White-crowned Manakin Radiation. (IMAGE)

Cornell University

Map of White-crowned Manakin Radiation.

Caption

Over a few million years, ancestors of the White-crowned Manakin expanded from the Andes Mountains into a wide variety of other habitats and became isolated by landscape features. Map markers indicate the locations and number of genetic samples used in the study.

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Manakin illustration reproduced with permission from the Handbook of the Birds of the World. Graphic by Jacob Berv.

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