Ancient trans-Atlantic flight explains locust biogeography: molecular phylogenetics of Schistocerca
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Ancient trans-Atlantic flight explains locust biogeography: molecular phylogenetics of Schistocerca.
The desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) has been an important agricultural pest at least since biblical times. Although the ecology, physiology and behaviour of this insect species have been well characterized, its biogeographical origins and evolutionary history are more obscure. Schistocerca gregaria occurs throughout Africa, the Middle East and Western Asia, but all other species in the ge...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3381