Acknowledgements
The authors thank Pilar González and all workmates who helped with the
lab and ”in silico” analyses. Special thanks are due to the group of Biodiversity and Animal Conservation of the Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC) and to red-legged partridge farms, who have kindly provided samples for this study, and to Beatriz Arroyo, François Mougeot and the Sequencing and Genotyping Unit of Genomic Facilites-SGIker (UPV/EHU/ ERDF, EU) for their technical and human support. Thanks also to Ana Burton who helped to revise
the English text. Xabier Cabodevilla was supported by a PhD Grant,
financed by the Basque Country Government (Grants no.
PRE_2018_2_0273). This study is a contribution to project
Sistemática, Biogeografía, Ecología del comportamiento y Evolución
(IT1163-19) funded by Basque Country Government. Additional funds for
this study were provided by the project 201630E096 funded by CSIC.