Molecular phylogeny, morphology and life-history comparisons within Circus cyaneus reveal the presence of two distinct evolutionary lineages

Table 1 Summary of pairwise genetic distances matrix for Cytochrome b, ND1 and COI sequences providing minimum, maximum and mean distances (%) for both intra-form and inter-form comparisons

Gene/form	Minimum intra-form distance	Maximum intra-form distance	Mean intra-form distance	Minimum inter-form distance	Maximum inter-form distance	Mean inter-form distance
Cytb/cyaneus	0	0.307	0.174	1.53	1.838	1.623
Cytb/hudsonius	0	0.139	0.035
ND1/cyaneus	0.164	0.164	0.164	1.802	1.802	1.802
ND1/hudsonius	0	0	0
COI/cyaneus	0	0	0	1.292	1.487	1.34
COI/hudsonius	0	0.186	0.093

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