A new species of Melitaea from Israel, with notes on taxonomy, cytogenetics, phylogeography and interspecific hybridization in the Melitaea persea complex (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae)
Specimens with intermediate morphology are often considered to be the result of ongoing interspecific hybridization; however, this conclusion is difficult to prove without analysis of chromosomal and/or molecular markers. In the butterfly genus Melitaea, such an intermediacy can be...
Main Author: | Vladimir A. Lukhtanov |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Pensoft Publishers
2017-05-01
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Series: | Comparative Cytogenetics |
Online Access: | http://compcytogen.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=12370 |
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