Phylogeny of Fungus-Growing Ants (Tribe Attini) Based on mtDNA Sequence and Morphology

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 42-47

  Wetterer, James K ^a   Schultz, Ted R ^b   Meier, Rudolf ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FUNGUS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LARVA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, TRANSFER, LEU; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0031989158     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1997.0466     Document Type: Article

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