A new nuclear gene for insect phylogenetics: Dopa decarboxylase is informative of relationships within Heliothinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Systematic Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 269-283

  Fang, Q Q ^a,b,f   Cho, Soowon ^b   Regier, Jerome C ^a   Mitter, Charles ^b   Matthews, Marcus ^c   Poole, Robert W ^d,e   Friedlander, Timothy P ^a   Zhao, Suwei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^e EIS Inc   (United States)

^f GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopa decarboxyase; Elongation factor 1 ; Heliothinae; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Noctuidae; Nuclear gene; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; HELIOTHINAE; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE;

AROMATIC LEVO AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; DNA; ELONGATION FACTOR 1;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; MOTH; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; DNA; DOPA DECARBOXYLASE; GENES, INSECT; MOTHS; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0031153859     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/46.2.269     Document Type: Article

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