Atlantic Yellow-legged Gull (atlantis)

(last update: October 12, 2011)

Fig. 2 Comparative illustration of mitochondrial phylogenetic structure within nine gull taxa.

For each taxon we show on the left the haplotype phylogeny (Kitsch tree, Kimura 2-parameter distances) and on the right the relative frequencies of pairwise sequence differences
(mismatch distribution). Haplotypes suspected to be the result of introgression are shown in grey. Haplotype trees were rooted with the sequence of Larus canus (branch not shown) and are drawn to the same scale to illustrate the relative depths of branching patterns.

FROM: D. LIEBERS, A. J. HELBIG and P. DE KNIJFF: "Genetic differentiation and phylogeography of gulls in the Larus cachinnans-fuscus group (Aves: Charadriiformes)". Published IN: Molecular Ecology (2001) 10, p 2447-2462