Industrial melanism: A possibility in British Columbia
Abstract
Melanics of the Geometrid <i>Biston cognataria</i> Guenee have been recorded from the comparatively polluted Vancouver area of British Columbia. At present the genetic basis and evolutionary significance of this is unknown.References
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