No hybrid snowcocks in the Altai—Hyper‐variable markers can be problematic for phylogenetic inference

A recent article in Ecology and Evolution featured the discovery of hybrid snowcocks (Tetraogallus) and speculated on the hybrid origin of an extant species (T. altaicus). Comprehensive re‐analyses of original data from the latter paper reliably refute the phylogenetic hypothesis taken as firm evidence of a past hybridization event in these birds. The new re‐analyses showed that there is no evidence of hybridization in these snowcocks from the data available so far.[Image: see text]