Low-coverage whole genome sequencing for highly accurate
population assignment: Mapping migratory connectivity in the American
Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla)
Running title: American Redstart migratory connectivity
Authors : Matthew G. DeSaix1, Eric C.
Anderson2,1,3, Christen M. Bossu1,
Christine E. Rayne1, Teia M.
Schweizer3, Nicholas J. Bayly4,
Darshan S. Narang5, Julie C.
Hagelin6, H. Lisle Gibbs7,8, James
F. Saracco9, Thomas W. Sherry10,11,
Michael S. Webster12,13, Thomas B.
Smith14,15, Peter P. Marra16,17,
Kristen C. Ruegg1
Affiliations :
1 Department of Biology, Colorado State University,
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
2 Fisheries Ecology Division, Southwest Fisheries
Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, Santa Cruz,
California, USA
3 Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation
Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
4 SELVA Investigación para la conservación en el
Neotropico, DG42A #20-37, Bogotá, Colombia
5 Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists’ Club, Port of
Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
6 Threatened, Endangered and Diversity Program, Alaska
Department of Fish and Game, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
7 Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal
Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
8 Ohio Biodiversity Conservation Partnership, The Ohio
State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
9 The Institute for Bird Populations, Petaluma,
California, USA
10 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
11 Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth
College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
12 Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, USA
13 Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York, USA
14 Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the
Environment & Sustainability, University of California Los Angeles, Los
Angeles, California, USA
15 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 Department of Biology, Georgetown University,
Washington, DC, USA
17 McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown
University, Washington, DC, USA
Corresponding author:
mgdesaix@gmail.com