The strepsiptera problem: Phylogeny of the holometabolous insect orders inferred from 18S and 28S ribosomal DNA sequences and morphology

Systematic Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-68

  Whiting, Michael F ^a   Carpenter, James C ^b   Wheeler, Quentin D ^c   Wheeler, Ward C ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment; Insect orders; Laxon sampling; Molecular systematics; Phylogeny; Sensitivity analysis; Strepsiptera

Indexed keywords

ADEPHAGA; AGULLA; AMPHIESMENOPTERA; APOCRITA; ARCHAEOGNATHA; ARCHOSTEMATA; BITTACIDAE; BLATTARIA; BOREIDAE; BOREUS; BRACHYCERA; CERATOPHYLLOIDEA; COLEOPTERA; COLLEMBOLA; COLPOCACCUS; CORIOXENIDAE; CORYDALUS; DERMAPTERA; DITRYSIA; ELENCHIDAE; EMBIOPTERA; EPHEMERIDA; HALTERIA; HEMEROBIOIDEA; HEMIPTERA; HYDROPSYCHOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; LIMNEPHILOIDEA; MANTISPOIDEA; MANTODEA; MEGALOPTERA; MEROPEIDAE; MUSCOMORPHA; MYRMECOLACIDAE; MYRMELEONTOIDEA; NEMATOCERA; NEUROPTERA; ODONATA; ORTHOPTERA; PANORPIDAE; PHASMATODEA; PHTHIRAPTERA; PLECOPTERA; PRIACMA; PSOCOPTERA; PULICOIDEA; RAPHIDIOPTERA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); STREPSIPTERA; STYLOPIDAE; SYMPHYTA; THYSANOPTERA; TRICHOPTERA;

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S; RNA 28S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; INSECT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0031084115     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/46.1.1     Document Type: Article

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