Why do cryptic species tend not to co-occur? A case study on two cryptic pairs of butterflies.

As cryptic diversity is being discovered, mostly thanks to advances in molecular techniques, it is becoming evident that many of these taxa display parapatric distributions in mainland and that they rarely coexist on islands. Genetic landscapes, haplotype networks and ecological niche modeling analy...

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Main Authors: Raluca Vodă, Leonardo Dapporto, Vlad Dincă, Roger Vila
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0117802