Molecular phylogeny of Azteca ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and the colonization of Cecropia trees

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 423-428

  Ayala, Francisco José ^a   Wetterer, James K ^b   Longino, John T ^c   Hartl, Daniel L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WHEATON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZTECA; CECROPIA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TREE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, TRANSFER, LEU; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TREES;

EID: 0030120390     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1996.0037     Document Type: Article

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