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_Vorträge über Descendenztheorie_, and which refer to _Papilio dardanus_ (_merope_).
Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880
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Of the many cases now known I select one, which is especially remarkable, and which has been thoroughly investigated, _Papilla dardanus_ (_merope_), a large, beautiful, diurnal butterfly which ranges from Abyssinia throughout the whole of
Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880
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First, they placed eggs of the butterfly, Heteronympha merope, in chambers where temperature could be controlled and found that each larval stage has a different response to warmer-than-normal conditions.
Medindia Health News 2010
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First, they placed eggs of the butterfly, Heteronympha merope, in chambers where temperature could be controlled and found that each larval stage has a different response to warmer-than-normal conditions.
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(Heteronympha merope) has emerged earlier and earlier over the last half century, with an average of 1.6 days per decade over a 65 year span.
TreeHugger 2010
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Well I bet a proportion … merope - There are quite a lot of people out there who …
Mental Nurse cellar_door 2010
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First, they placed eggs of the butterfly, Heteronympha merope, in chambers where temperature could be controlled and found that each larval stage has a different response to warmer-than-normal conditions.
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Throughout the eastern part of the range, levels of migration and the timing of key population splits of potential relevance to climatic adaptation are estimated and indicate Late Pleistocene divergence both of the Tasmanian subspecies and of an isolated northern population from the eastern mainland subspecies H.m. merope.
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Butterflies are one of the most important taxa for studying such impacts, and Heteronympha merope has the potential to provide a particularly valuable model, in part due to the existence of historical data on morphological traits and glycolytic enzyme variation.
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This information is then used to revisit historical data and provides support for the importance of clinal variation in wing characters, as well as evidence for selective pressure acting on allozyme loci phosphoglucose isomerase and phosphoglucomutase in H. merope.
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