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From Russia with lobe: genetic differentiation in trilobed uncus Ostrinia spp. follows food plant, not hairy legs.
Heredity - 1 Feb 2012
Frolov A N, Audiot P, Bourguet D, Kononchuk A G, Malysh J M, Ponsard S, Streiff R, Tokarev Y S
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Trilobed uncus taxa of the genus Ostrinia (Lepidoptera, Crambidae) illustrate the complex relationship, at early stages of speciation, between reproductive isolation and differentiation in morphology, resource use and genetic variation. On the basis of behaviour and ecology, we recently hypothesized that individuals with small mid-tibiae belong to two distinct species depending on host plant--O. nubilalis and O....
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