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Insect invasions and natural selection

Amro Zayed ()
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Amro Zayed: York University, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada.

Nature, 2016, vol. 539, issue 7630, 500-502

Abstract: Observations of a real-time invasion of Australia by Asian honeybees demonstrate how natural selection can allow a small founding population to overcome the genetic odds stacked against success.

Date: 2016
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