Host-symbiont stability and fast evolutionary rates in an ant-bacterium association: Cospeciation of Camponotus species and their endosymbionts, Candidatus blochmannia

Systematic Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 95-110

  Degnan, Patrick H ^a   Lazarus, Adam B ^a   Brock, Chad D ^b   Wernegreen, Jennifer J ^a  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blochmannia; Camponotus; Cospeciation; Endosymbiosis; Molecular clock; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL; ANT; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; CAMPONOTUS; CANDIDATUS BLOCHMANNIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 1642308878     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150490264842     Document Type: Conference Paper

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