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Bottlenecks drive temporal and spatial genetic changes in alpine caddisfly metapopulations.
BMC evolutionary biology - 27 Sept 2011
Shama Lisa N S, Kubow Karen B, Jokela Jukka, Robinson Christopher T
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BACKGROUND: Extinction and re-colonisation of local populations is common in ephemeral habitats such as temporary streams. In most cases, such population turnover leads to reduced genetic diversity within populations and increased genetic differentiation among populations due to stochastic founder events, genetic drift, and bottlenecks associated with re-colonisation. Here, we examined the spatio-temporal genetic...
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