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Allochronic isolation and incipient hybrid speciation in tiger swallowtail butterflies.
Oecologia - 1 Feb 2010
Ording Gabriel James, Mercader Rodrigo J, Aardema Matthew L, Scriber J M
Abstract excerpt
Hybridization leading to reproductively isolated, novel genotypes is poorly understood as a means of speciation and few empirical examples have been studied. In 1999, a previously non-existent delayed flight of what appeared to be the Canadian tiger swallowtail butterfly, Papilio canadensis, was observed in the Battenkill River Valley, USA. Allozyme frequencies and morphology suggest that this delayed flight was...
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