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Evolving while invading: rapid adaptive evolution in juvenile development time for a biological control organism colonizing a high-elevation environment

We report evidence of adaptive evolution in juvenile development time on a decadal timescale for the cinnabar moth Tyria jacobaeae (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) colonizing new habitats and hosts from the Willamette Valley to the Coast Range and Cascades Mountains in Oregon. Four lines of evidence reveal...

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Autores principales: McEvoy, Peter B, Higgs, Kimberley M, Coombs, Eric M, Karaçetin, Evrim, Ann Starcevich, Leigh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3407870/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22949927
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-4571.2012.00278.x