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Genetic divergence of isolated populations of the native micromoth Bucculatrix mirnae (Lepidoptera: Bucculatricidae) in the arid environments of Northern Chile.
Mitochondrial DNA. Part A, DNA mapping, sequencing, and analysis - 1 Dec 2018
Vargas-Ortiz Marcelo, Bobadilla Dante, Huanca-Mamani Wilson, Vargas Héctor A
Abstract excerpt
Analysis of maternally inherited genes is especially helpful in population studies of host-specialized insects, as female dispersal is key to find an adequate host plant to ensure larval survival. Bucculatrix mirnae (Lepidoptera: Bucculatricidae) is a little-known Neotropical micromoth native to the arid environments of northern Chile whose hypermetamorphic larvae are miners and skeletonizers on leaves of two...
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