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Unravelling the role of host plant expansion in the diversification of a Neotropical butterfly genus.

BMC evolutionary biology - 16 Jun 2016

McClure Melanie, Elias Marianne

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BACKGROUND: Understanding the processes underlying diversification is a central question in evolutionary biology. For butterflies, access to new host plants provides opportunities for adaptive speciation. On the one hand, locally abundant host species can generate ecologically significant selection pressure. But a diversity of host plant species within the geographic range of each population and/or species might...

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PMID: 27306900
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-016-0701-5
PMCID: PMC4910189

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