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Investigating concordance among genetic data, subspecies circumscriptions and hostplant use in the nymphalid butterfly Polygonia faunus.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Kodandaramaiah Ullasa, Weingartner Elisabet, Janz Niklas, Leski Michael, Slove Jessica, Warren Andrew, Nylin Sören
Abstract excerpt
Subspecies are commonly used taxonomic units to formally describe intraspecific geographic variation in morphological traits. However, the concept of subspecies is not clearly defined, and there is little agreement about what they represent in terms of evolutionary units, and whether they can be used as reliably useful units in conservation, evolutionary theory and taxonomy. We here investigate whether the...
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