Putting the biological species concept to the test: using mating networks to delimit species.

Although interfertility is the key criterion upon which Mayr's biological species concept is based, it has never been applied directly to delimit species under natural conditions. Our study fills this gap. We used the interfertility criterion to delimit two closely related oak species in a fore...

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Main Authors: Lélia Lagache, Jean-Benoist Leger, Jean-Jacques Daudin, Rémy J Petit, Corinne Vacher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3688613?pdf=render

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