Are flightless Galapaganus weevils older than the Galapagos islands they inhabit?

Heredity

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 20-29

  Sequeira, Andrea S ^a   Lanteri, Analía A ^b   Scataglini, M Amalia ^c   Confalonieri, Viviana A ^c   Farrell, Brian D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MUSEO DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cytochrome oxidase I; DNA sequences; Island biogeography; Progression rule; Speciation; Taxon cycle

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME OXIDASE; ECUADOR; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EVOLUTION; GALAPAGOS ISLAND; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY;

BEETLE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EVOLUTION; GEOLOGY; ISLAND;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECUADOR; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS;

ECUADOR;

ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; ENTIMINAE; GALAPAGANUS; GALAPAGANUS GALAPAGOENSIS; GEKKONIDAE; IGUANIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0033837531     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2540.2000.00690.x     Document Type: Article

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