Relatedness and population differentiation in a colonial butterfly, Eucheira socialis (lepidoptera: pieridae)

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 230-236

  Porter, Adam H ^a   Geiger, Hansjürg ^b   Underwood, Dessie L A ^c   Llorente Bousquets, Jorge ^d   Shapiro, Arthur M ^c  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Hierarchical genetic structure; Larval nest; Relatedness; Wright F statistics

Indexed keywords

EUCHEIRA; EUCHEIRA SOCIALIS; LEPIDOPTERA; PIERIDAE;

COLONIAL BUTTERFLY; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; RELATEDNESS;

MEXICO;

EID: 0031418895     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aesa/90.2.230     Document Type: Article

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