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Scent of a break-up: phylogeography and reproductive trait divergences in the red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius).
BMC evolutionary biology - 2 Dec 2013
Lecocq Thomas, Dellicour Simon, Michez Denis, Lhomme Patrick, Vanderplanck Maryse, Valterová Irena, Rasplus Jean-Yves, Rasmont Pierre
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BACKGROUND: The Pleistocene climatic oscillations are considered as a major driving force of intraspecific divergence and speciation. During Ice Ages, populations isolated in allopatric glacial refugia can experience differentiation in reproductive traits through divergence in selection regimes. This phenomenon may lead to reproductive isolation and dramatically accentuates the consequences of the climatic...
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