After 60 years , an answer to the question : what is the Karner blue butterfly ? Matthew
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Matthew L. Forister1,*, Zachariah Gompert2, James A. Fordyce3 and Chris C. Nice4 Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89552, USA Department of Botany, Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA Department of Biology, Population and Conservation Biology Program, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA *Author for correspondence ([email protected]).
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James A . Fordyce and Chris C . Nice blue butterfly ? After 60 years , an answer to the question : what is the Karner
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