Natural history collections as windows on evolutionary processes
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Natural history collections as windows on evolutionary processes.
Natural history collections provide an immense record of biodiversity on Earth. These repositories have traditionally been used to address fundamental questions in biogeography, systematics and conservation. However, they also hold the potential for studying evolution directly. While some of the best direct observations of evolution have come from long-term field studies or from experimental st...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Ecology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0962-1083,1365-294X
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13529