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  1. Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87131, USA

    Randall Mitchell, David Bleakly, Robert Cabin, Raymund Chan, Brian Enquist, Ann Evans, Timothy Lowrey, Diane Marshall, Steven Reed & George Stevens

  2. Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, 92521, USA

    Nickolas Waser

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Mitchell, R., Bleakly, D., Cabin, R. et al. Species concepts. Nature 364, 20 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/364020a0

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