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The Lepidoptera of the British Islands
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The article was published on 2015-02-20 and is currently open access. It has received 50 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Lepidoptera genitalia.read more
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A mathematical theory of natural and artificial selection
TL;DR: Expressions are found for the progress of slow selection in a Mendelian population where generations overlap and the changes are very similar to those which occur when generations are separate.
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Holocene climate changes and warm man‐made refugia may explain why a sixth of British butterflies possess unnatural early‐successional habitats
TL;DR: It is suggested that British butterfly species are relics from a period when British summers were warmer than today, and that they avoided extinction when the climate cooled by moving into warm refugia created by prehistoric man within three types of ecosystem.
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The Rise and Fall of the Carbonaria Form of the Peppered Moth
TL;DR: A system under strong selection that has always been in a dynamic state without equilibria is indicated, and experiments to investigate predation by birds show a net advantage to carbonaria morphs in regions where typical frequencies were low at the time of the experiment, and a disadvantage where Typical frequencies were high.
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The peppered moth and industrial melanism: evolution of a natural selection case study
TL;DR: Modelling and monitoring of declining melanic frequencies since the 1970s indicate either that migration rates are much higher than existing direct estimates suggested or else, or in addition, non-visual selection has a role.
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Comprehensive molecular sampling yields a robust phylogeny for geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae).
TL;DR: This study provides the first comprehensive phylogeny of the Geometridae in a global context, and results generally agree with the other, more restricted studies, suggesting that the general phylogenetic patterns of theGeometricridae are now well-established.