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Hybridization of Bombina bombina and B. variegata (Anura, Discoglossidae) at a sharp ecotone in western Ukraine: comparisons across transects and over time.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Mar 2006
Yanchukov Alexey, Hofman Sebastian, Szymura Jacek M, Mezhzherin Sergey V, Morozov-Leonov Sviatoslav Y, Barton Nicholas H, Nürnberger Beate
Abstract excerpt
Bombina bombina and B. variegata are two anciently diverged toad taxa that have adapted to different breeding habitats yet hybridize freely in zones of overlap where their parapatric distributions meet. Here, we report on a joint genetic and ecological analysis of a hybrid zone in the vicinity of...
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