2023
DOI: 10.1111/mec.17227
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Ancient mitochondrial genomes unveil the origins and evolutionary history of New Zealand's enigmatic takahē and moho

Alexander J. F. Verry,
Eduard Mas‐Carrió,
Gillian C. Gibb
et al.

Abstract: Many avian species endemic to Aotearoa New Zealand were driven to extinction or reduced to relict populations following successive waves of human arrival, due to hunting, habitat destruction and the introduction of mammalian predators. Among the affected species were the large flightless South Island takahē (Porphyrio hochstetteri) and the moho (North Island takahē; P. mantelli), with the latter rendered extinct and the former reduced to a single relictual population. Little is known about the evolutionary his… Show more

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