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Is a change in juvenile hormone sensitivity involved in range expansion in an invasive beetle?

INTRODUCTION: It has been suggested that rapid range expansion could proceed through evolution in the endocrinological machinery controlling life-history switches. Based on this we tested whether the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, which has rapidly expanded its range across latit...

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Autores principales: Lehmann, Philipp, Lyytinen, Anne, Piiroinen, Saija, Lindström, Leena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4566194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26366187
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-015-0113-1