Australian Lasioglossum + Homalictus form a monophyletic group: Resolving the "Australian Enigma"

Systematic Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 268-283

  Danforth, Bryan N ^a   Ji, Shuqing ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Elongation factor 1 ; Maximum likelihood; Phylogeny; Social evolution

Indexed keywords

APOIDEA; CHILALICTUS; HOMALICTUS; PARASPHECODES;

DNA; ELONGATION FACTOR 1;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BEE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; FEMALE; GENE; GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BASE COMPOSITION; BEES; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PHYLOGENY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0035527360     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/50.2.268     Document Type: Article

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