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SUBMITTER: Hanski I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2613235 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hanski Ilkka I Wirta Helena H Nyman Toshka T Rahagalala Pierre P
Ecology letters 20080904 11
The endemic dung beetle subtribe Helictopleurina has 65 species mostly in wet forests in eastern Madagascar. There are no extant native ungulates in Madagascar, but three Helictopleurus species have shifted to the introduced cattle dung in open habitats in the past 1500 years. Helictopleurus neoamplicollis and Helictopleurus marsyas exhibit very limited cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 haplotype diversity and a single haplotype is present across Madagascar, suggesting that these species shifted to c ...[more]