Molecular Phylogenetics at the Felsenstein Zone: Approaching the Strepsiptera Problem Using 5.8S and 28S rDNA Sequences

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 470-480

  Hwang, Ui W ^a   Kim, Won ^a   Tautz, Diethard ^a   Friedrich, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Insect systematics; Maximum likelihood; Molecular phylogeny; Parametric bootstrap.; Quartet puzzling; Ribosomal DNA; Stationarity of nucleotide composition; Strepsiptera

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 28S; RNA 5.8S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FLY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEETLES; DIPTERA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0032085606     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1998.0518     Document Type: Article

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