Phylogeny of carabid beetles as inferred from 18S ribosomal DNA (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 103-138

  Maddison, David R ^a   Baker, Michael D ^a   Ober, Karen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMAROTYPUS; APOTOMUS; BEMBIDIINI; BRACHININI; CARABIDAE; CLIVININI; CNEMALOBUS; COLEOPTERA; CYMBIONOTUM; GEHRINGIA; HARPALINAE; LACCOCENUS; LORICERA; MIGADOPINI; MORION; OMOPHRON; PATROBINI; PAUSSINAE; PSEUDOMORPHA; PSYDRINI; PSYDRUS; RHYSODINAE; SCARITINI; TRECHITAE;

EID: 0001705679     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3113.1999.00088.x     Document Type: Article

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