Molecular phylogenetic study of a myrmecophyte symbiosis: Did Leonardoxa/ ant associations diversify via cospedation?

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 270-286

  Chenuil, Anne ^a   McKey, Doyle B ^b,c  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHOMOMYRMEX; APHOMOMYRMEX AFER; CAESALPINIOIDEAE; FABACEAE; FORMICIDAE; LEONARDOXA; LEONARDOXA AFRICANA; MYRMELACHISTINI; PETALOMYRMEX; PETALOMYRMEX PHYLAX;

DNA; PLANT DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENE; GENETICS; LEGUME; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FABACEAE; GENES, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0030256138     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1996.0076     Document Type: Article

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