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Reconstructing eight decades of genetic variation in an isolated Danish population of the large blue butterfly Maculinea arion.
BMC evolutionary biology - 11 Jul 2011
Ugelvig Line V, Nielsen Per S, Boomsma Jacobus J, Nash David R
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BACKGROUND: Fragmentation of terrestrial ecosystems has had detrimental effects on metapopulations of habitat specialists. Maculinea butterflies have been particularly affected because of their specialized lifecycles, requiring both specific food-plants and host-ants. However, the interaction between dispersal, effective population size, and long-term genetic erosion of these endangered butterflies remains...
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