Article
The genetic legacy of the Quaternary ice ages for West Palearctic butterflies.
Science advances - 20 Sept 2024
Dapporto Leonardo, Menchetti Mattia, Dincă Vlad, Talavera Gerard, Garcia-Berro Aurora, D'Ercole Jacopo, Hebert Paul Dn, Vila Roger
Abstract excerpt
The interplay between geographic barriers and climatic oscillations over the past 2.6 million years structured genetic variation at the continental scale. The genetic legacy of the Quaternary ice ages (GLQ) hypothesis outlines this phenomenon for Europe, but a comprehensive data-driven assessment is lacking. Using innovative genetic landscape methods, we model the GLQ in the West Palearctic based on 31,653...
Topics
- Animals
- Butterflies
- Europe
- Genetic Variation
- Phylogeny
- Electron Transport Complex IV
- Phylogeography
