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How much variation can one ant species hold? Species delimitation in the Crematogaster kelleri-group in Madagascar.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Blaimer Bonnie B, Fisher Brian L
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the species-level taxonomy of the Malagasy Crematogaster (Crematogaster) kelleri-group and an additional more distantly related species of the same subgenus. Morphological data from worker, queen and male ants, as well as genetic data from three nuclear genes (long wavelength rhodopsin, arginine kinase and carbomoylphosphate synthase) and one mitochondrial marker (cytochrome oxidase I) led to the...
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