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Butterfly genomics sheds light on the process of hybrid speciation.
Molecular ecology - 1 Sept 2014
Nadeau Nicola
Abstract excerpt
How common is hybridization between species and what effect does it have on the evolutionary process? Can hybridization generate new species and what indeed is a species? In this issue, Gompert et al. (2014) show how massive, genome-scale data sets can be used to shed light on these questions. They focus on the Lycaeides butterflies, and in particular, several populations from the western USA, which have...
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