Hello Tweeties,

I wrote about a research paper that was just published in the prestigious journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society B. This paper investigates whether the Australian Crimson Rosella species complex is a ring species or not. You might find this test of the ring species hypothesis interesting reading;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/08/ring_around_the_parrots.php

Cheers,

GrrlScientist
Devorah
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/
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