Intraspecific patterns of mitochondrial variation in natural population fragments of a localized desert dung beetle species, Pachysoma gariepinum (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae).

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Phylogenetic, population, and coalescent methods were used to examine the genetic structuring of Pachysoma gariepinum, a flightless dung beetle species endemic to the arid west coast of southern Africa that exhibits interrupted south to north morphological clinal variation along a distributional gradient. Mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I sequence data of 67 individuals from 5 localities revealed the presence of...

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