Split of Rockhopper Penguin

[Andrew Taylor <>]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:55:42AM +1100, Peter Shute wrote:
> Yes, but how can they tell it happened recently and rapidly?

The paper only presents mitochondrial DNA analyses.  Several estimates
of divergence time are discussed, all within the last million years.
Nothing is said about the divergence being rapid though.

I don't understand why they mention mating signals in the abstract
as their data has no direct implications about signalling that I can
see - but the lead author (Jouventin) is an expert on Penguin behaviour.

There is a  news article here:
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article570948.ece

Andrew
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