M. L. AZZAROLI PUCCETTI’s scientific contributions

... Already Halanych et al. [130] noticed that Lepus species that are known to hybridize in the wild, such as L. europaeus and L. timidus, may nevertheless show marked mtDNA divergence, indicative of "good species". He hypothesized that geographic, ecological, or behavioural isolation mechanisms may be driving speciation in the genus Lepus rather than genetic incompatibility, also in view of the very little chromosomal variation within the genus (e.g., Robinson et al. [131,132], Azzaroli-Puccetti et al. [133]). Later studies are not incongruent with this hypothesis (e.g., Alves et al. [8], Liu et al. [9], Wu et al. [27], Melo-Ferreira et al. [10,11], see also Thulin et al. [7], and Robinson and Matthee [127]). ...

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Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA reveals reticulate evolution in hares (Lepus spp., Lagomorpha, Mammalia) from Ethiopia