ADMIXTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY RATES ACROSS A BUTTERFLY HYBRID ZONE

Admixture of evolutionary rates across a butterfly hybrid zone

Hybridization is a major evolutionary force that can erode genetic differentiation between species, whereas reproductive isolation maintains such differentiation.In studying a hybrid zone between the swallowtail butterflies Papilio syfanius and Papilio maackii (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), we made the unexpected discovery that genomic substitution r

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The importance of molecular characters when morphological variability hinders diagnosability: systematics of the moon jellyfish genus Aurelia (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa)

Cryptic roman atwood gfuel species have been detected across Metazoa, and while no apparent morphological features distinguish them, it should not impede taxonomists from formal descriptions.We accepted this challenge for the jellyfish genus Aurelia, which has a long and confusing taxonomic history.We demonstrate that morphological variability in A

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