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Population Structure of the Jewel Scarab Chrysina gloriosa.
Genome biology and evolution - 2 Jun 2026
Sylvester Terrence, Hjelmen Carl E, Thompson Michelle J, Blackmon Leslie T, Alfieri James M, Hoover Zachary, Esfandani Tahmineh, Blackmon Heath
Abstract excerpt
The sky-island mountain ranges of the southwestern United States offer a natural setting for examining how climate and geography impact population structure and gene flow. The jewel scarab, Chrysina gloriosa, is a charismatic beetle restricted to high-elevation habitats in these mountains, where isolation and environmental change may be driving population divergence. We used low-coverage whole-genome resequencing...
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