Genetics of host plant use and life history in the comma butterfly across Europe: Varying modes of inheritance as a potential reproductive barrier

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1882-1893

  Nygren, G H ^a   Nylin, S ^a   Stefanescu, C ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Museu Granollers Ciencies Naturals   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biogeography; Clines; Epistasis; Genetics; Heterosis; Host plants; Hybrids; Sex linkage; Speciation

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; EGG SIZE; GENETIC VARIATION; GROWTH RATE; HERITABILITY; HOST PLANT; LARVA; LIFE HISTORY; OVIPOSITION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CYTOLOGY; EGG LAYING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; URTICA DIOICA; WILLOW;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; LARVA; OVIPOSITION; OVUM; REPRODUCTION; SALIX; URTICA DIOICA;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; SWEDEN; WESTERN EUROPE;

NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; POLYGONIA C-ALBUM; SALIX; SALIX CAPREA; URTICA DIOICA;

EID: 33750021117     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01174.x     Document Type: Article

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