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International Journal of Ecology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 809897, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/809897
Research Article
Testing the Role of Habitat Isolation among Ecologically Divergent Gall Wasp Populations
1Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
2Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
3Population and Conservation Biology Program, Department of Biology, Texas State University—San Marcos, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA
Received 17 October 2011; Accepted 9 January 2012
Academic Editor: Marianne Elias
Copyright © 2012 Scott P. Egan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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