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Widespread horizontal genomic exchange does not erode species barriers among sympatric ducks

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Evolutionary Biology, January 2012
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Title
Widespread horizontal genomic exchange does not erode species barriers among sympatric ducks
Published in
BMC Evolutionary Biology, January 2012
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-12-45
Pubmed ID
22462721
Authors

Robert HS Kraus, Hindrik HD Kerstens, Pim van Hooft, Hendrik-Jan Megens, Johan Elmberg, Arseny Tsvey, Dmitry Sartakov, Sergej A Soloviev, Richard PMA Crooijmans, Martien AM Groenen, Ronald C Ydenberg, Herbert HT Prins

Abstract

The study of speciation and maintenance of species barriers is at the core of evolutionary biology. During speciation the genome of one population becomes separated from other populations of the same species, which may lead to genomic incompatibility with time. This separation is complete when no fertile offspring is produced from inter-population matings, which is the basis of the biological species concept. Birds, in particular ducks, are recognised as a challenging and illustrative group of higher vertebrates for speciation studies. There are many sympatric and ecologically similar duck species, among which fertile hybrids occur relatively frequently in nature, yet these species remain distinct.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 3 3%
United States 2 2%
Italy 1 1%
Netherlands 1 1%
Spain 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Unknown 78 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 26%
Researcher 21 24%
Student > Master 14 16%
Professor 5 6%
Other 5 6%
Other 11 13%
Unknown 8 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 65 75%
Environmental Science 4 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 5%
Physics and Astronomy 2 2%
Arts and Humanities 1 1%
Other 2 2%
Unknown 9 10%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 33. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 September 2016.
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#1,097,058
of 23,881,329 outputs
Outputs from BMC Evolutionary Biology
#192
of 2,897 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,118
of 249,275 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Evolutionary Biology
#4
of 103 outputs
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