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1 August 2011 Can Song Discriminate between Macgillivray's and Mourning Warblers in a Narrow Hybrid Zone?
Haley L. Kenyon, David P. L. Toews, Darren E. Irwin
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Abstract

Areas where divergent taxa come into secondary contact are important in identifying the reproductive barriers that may have evolved between them. Here we investigate whether song variation plays a role in maintaining a recently described hybrid zone between MacGillivray's (Oporornis tolmiei) and Mourning Warblers (O. Philadelphia) in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. We analyzed song recordings and genetic data from across the ranges of both species as well as where they occur in sympatry. We predicted that if song differences are an important pre-mating reproductive barrier between these taxa, song and genotype in the hybrid zone should covary. Using a discriminant function analysis, we show that the two species' songs are differentiated in allopatry but that songs converge in sympatry, with a weak and nonsignificant association between songs and diagnostic mitochondrial and nuclear genetic markers in the hybrid zone. These results suggest that song divergence is unlikely to be an important reproductive barrier between these taxa and that learning of the other species' song may be promoting continued hybridization. This result contrasts with studies of other species pairs that maintain song differences in sympatry and come into contact in this same geographic region.

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Haley L. Kenyon, David P. L. Toews, and Darren E. Irwin "Can Song Discriminate between Macgillivray's and Mourning Warblers in a Narrow Hybrid Zone?," The Condor 113(3), 655-663, (1 August 2011). https://doi.org/10.1525/cond.2011.100182
Received: 17 September 2010; Accepted: 1 March 2011; Published: 1 August 2011
KEYWORDS
hybrid zone
hybridization
Oporornis Philadelphia
Oporornis tolmiei
signal convergence
song
speciation
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