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Temporal population genetics of time travelling insects: a long term study in a seed-specialized wasp.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Suez Marie, Gidoin Cindy, Lefèvre François, Candau Jean-Noël, Chalon Alain, Boivin Thomas
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Many animal species experiencing spatial or interannual fluctuations of their environment are capable of prolonged diapause, a kind of dormancy that extends over more than one year. Such a prolonged diapause is commonly perceived as a temporal demographic refuge in stochastic environments, but empirical evidence is still lacking of its consequences on temporal population genetic structures. In this long-term...
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