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Range-wide phylogeography of the flightless steppe beetle Lethrus apterus (Geotrupidae) reveals recent arrival to the Pontic Steppes from the west.
Scientific reports - 24 Mar 2022
Sramkó Gábor, Kosztolányi András, Laczkó Levente, Rácz Rita, Szatmári Lajos, Varga Zoltán, Barta Zoltán
Abstract excerpt
The Eurasian Steppe belt is one of the largest biomes in the Northern Hemisphere. We provide here a range-wide phylogeography of the flightless steppe beetle Lethrus apterus that inhabits the western part of the Steppe belt through the study of population-level variance of mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I sequences and nuclear microsatellites. We detected a concordant geographic structure of genetic data with a...
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