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Demographic inferences and climatic niche modelling shed light on the evolutionary history of the emblematic cold-adapted Apollo butterfly at regional scale.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jan 2022
Kebaïli Caroline, Sherpa Stéphanie, Rioux Delphine, Després Laurence
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Cold-adapted species escape climate warming by latitudinal and/or altitudinal range shifts, and currently occur in Southern Europe in isolated mountain ranges within "sky islands". Here, we studied the genetic structure of the Apollo butterfly in five such sky islands (above 1,000 m) in France, and infer its demographic history since the last interglacial, using single nucleotide polymorphisms (ddRADseq SNPs)....
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