Synergistic effects of combining morphological and molecular data in resolving the phylogeny of butterflies and skippers

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1572, 2005, Pages 1577-1586

  Wahlberg, Niklas ^a   Braby, Michael F ^b,e   Brower, Andrew V Z ^c   De Jong, Rienk ^d   Lee, Ming Min ^c   Nylin, Sören ^a   Pierce, Naomi E ^e   Sperling, Felix A H ^f   Vila, Roger ^e   Warren, Andrew D ^c   Zakharov, Evgueni ^f  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Insecta; Molecular systematics; Total evidence

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SYNERGISM;

ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; DNA SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DITRYSIA; GEOMETRIDAE; HEDYLIDAE; HEDYLOIDEA; HESPERIIDAE; HESPERIOIDEA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCAENIDAE; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; PIERIDAE; RIODINIDAE;

EID: 26244459118     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3124     Document Type: Article

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