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Enzyme electrophoretic approach to the systematics and evolution of the butterflyEuchloe ausonia

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Enzyme electrophoretic studies show that theEuchloe taxasimplonia andcrameri share no common gene pool and are genetically as much differentiated from each other as from the North AmericanE. olympia. It is concluded that the taxasimplonia andcrameri are specifically distinct; separation of their gene pool must have occurred long before the end of the last glacial period.

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  1. Zoological Institute, Baltzerstrasse 3, CH-3012, Bern, Switzerland

    H. J. Geiger & A. Scholl

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Acknowledgments. We are indepted to Mr J. H. Robert, Drs F. Llorca and A. Manjon, Alicante, Spain and Mr J. Reichel, Revelstoke, Canada, for material used in this study. Mrs V. Siegfried and Mrs L. Frauchiger, Berne, assisted in the electrophoretic investigations, Prof. H. P. Bulnheim, Hamburg, Germany, read the english version of the manuscript. This study was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation grant No. 3.640.80.

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Geiger, H.J., Scholl, A. Enzyme electrophoretic approach to the systematics and evolution of the butterflyEuchloe ausonia. Experientia 38, 927–929 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01953657

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