When ecological isolation breaks down: Sexual isolation is an incomplete barrier to hybridization between Rhagoletis species

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 829-841

  Schwarz, Dietmar ^a   McPheron, Bruce A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybridization; Invasives; Mating behaviour; Reproductive barrier; Sexual isolation; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DIPTERA; LONICERA; RHAGOLETIS; RHAGOLETIS MENDAX; RHAGOLETIS SP. DS-2005; RHAGOLETIS ZEPHYRIA; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 34547178759     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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