Species delimitation in native South American fire ants

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3419-3438

  Ross, Kenneth G ^a   Shoemaker, D Dewayne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire ants; Gene flow; Introgression; Reproductive isolation; Solenopsis; Species delimitation

Indexed keywords

SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA; SOLENOPSIS QUINQUECUSPIS; SOLENOPSIS RICHTERI;

ISOENZYME; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTION; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; ISOENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 23044498929     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02661.x     Document Type: Article

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