Out of South America? Additional evidence for a southern origin of melanopline grasshoppers

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 115-119

  Amedegnato C ^a   Chapco, W ^b   Litzenberger, G ^b  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acrididae; Biogeography; Grasshoppers; Melanoplinae; mtDNA; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ACRIDIDAE; MELANOPLINAE;

EID: 0242360693     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00074-5     Document Type: Article

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