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Phylogeography of Fischer's blue, Tongeia fischeri, in Japan: Evidence for introgressive hybridization.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Jan 2013
Jeratthitikul Ekgachai, Hara Takehiro, Yago Masaya, Itoh Tateo, Wang Min, Usami Shin-ichi, Hikida Tsutomu
Abstract excerpt
The widespread lycaenid butterfly Tongeia fischeri is distributed from eastern Europe to northeastern Asia and represented by three geographically isolated populations in Japan. In order to clarify the phylogeographic history of the species, we used sequences of three mitochondrial (COI, Cyt b and ND5) and two nuclear (Rpl5 and Ldh) genes of 207 individuals collected from 55 sites throughout Japan and five sites...
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