Scientists Discover First Known Hybrid Bird Species In The Amazon Rainforest

They were then able to sequence a large portion of the golden-crowned manakins genome including 16,000 different genetic markers, finding that about 20 per cent of its genome came from the snowy-crowned, and about 80 per cent came from the opal-crowned. The researchers also used something called coalescent modelling to figure out at what point the golden-crowned split off from its parental species.