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Florida Scrub-Jays reveal new details about isolation-by-distance.
The pattern of isolation-by-distance is observed often in nature, but we rarely have means to directly understand how dispersal creates these patterns. Aguillon et al. capitalize on long-term monitoring of a population of Florida Scrub-Jays to demonstrate how extremely short dispersal distances result in genealogical relatives living close together geographically. Detailed dispersal, pedigree, and genomic data available for this population allowed an unusually detailed understanding of how dispersal shapes patterns of isolation-by-distance. This image shows an adult Florida Scrub-Jay from the study population, including its uniquely identifying, colored leg bands. See Aguillon et al.
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Image Credit: Reed Bowman, Archbold Biological Station, Venus, Florida, United States of America
Citation: (2017) PLoS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 13(8) August 2017. PLoS Genet 13(8): ev13.i08. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v13.i08
Published: August 31, 2017
Copyright: © 2017 Reed Bowman. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The pattern of isolation-by-distance is observed often in nature, but we rarely have means to directly understand how dispersal creates these patterns. Aguillon et al. capitalize on long-term monitoring of a population of Florida Scrub-Jays to demonstrate how extremely short dispersal distances result in genealogical relatives living close together geographically. Detailed dispersal, pedigree, and genomic data available for this population allowed an unusually detailed understanding of how dispersal shapes patterns of isolation-by-distance. This image shows an adult Florida Scrub-Jay from the study population, including its uniquely identifying, colored leg bands. See Aguillon et al.
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Image Credit: Reed Bowman, Archbold Biological Station, Venus, Florida, United States of America