Phylogenetic relationships of the prodontria (coleoptera; scarabaeidae; subfamily melolonthinae), derived from sequence variation in the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase II gene

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 433-447

  Emerson, Brent C ^a   Wallis, Graham P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DNA; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEETLES; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0029449239     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1995.1040     Document Type: Article

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