Rapid evolution in unstable habitats: a success story of the polymorphic land snail Cepaea nemoralis (Gastropoda: Pulmonata)
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History or current selection? A molecular analysis of 'area effects' in the land snail Cepaea nemoralis.
We have used molecular variation in microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA to throw light on the origins of enigmatic geographical patterns, known as 'area effects', in the shell polymorphisms of the land snail Cepaea nemoralis. Our aim was to assess the relative importance of recent selection and historical events in the formation of these patterns. On the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire, England...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0024-4066
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01585.x