Phylogenetic discordance at the species boundary: Comparative gene genealogies among rapidly radiating Heliconius butterflies

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2176-2190

  Beltrán, Margarita ^a,b   Jiggins, Chris D ^a   Bull, Vanessa ^b   Linares, Mauricio ^c   Mallet, James ^b   McMillan, W Owen ^d   Bermingham, Eldredge ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Coalescence; Hybridization; Mitochondrial DNA; Nuclear genes; Phylogeny; Taq error

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MANNOSE PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; PRIMER DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE FLOW; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENEALOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

HELICONIUS; HELICONIUS CYDNO; HELICONIUS ERATO; HELICONIUS HIMERA; HELICONIUS MELPOMENE; PAPILIONOIDEA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BUTTERFLIES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0036898739     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004042     Document Type: Article

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