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Lack of assortative mating might explain reduced phenotypic differentiation where two grasshopper species meet.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Apr 2022
Morgan-Richards Mary, Vilcot Maurine, Trewick Steven A
Abstract excerpt
Hybridization is an evolutionary process with wide-ranging potential outcomes, from providing populations with important genetic variation for adaptation to being a substantial fitness cost leading to extinction. Here, we focussed on putative hybridization between two morphologically distinct species of New Zealand grasshopper. We collected Phaulacridium marginale and Phaulacridium otagoense specimens from a...
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