Molecular phylogenetics and evolution of maternal care in membracine treehoppers

Systematic Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 400-421

  Lin, Chung Ping ^a,c   Danforth, Bryan N ^a   Wood, Thomas K ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Maximum likelihood; Membracidae; Mitochondrial gene; Nuclear gene; Phylogeny; Social evolution; Treehoppers

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HEMIPTERA; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HEMIPTERA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MEMBRACIDAE;

EID: 3242699787     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150490445869     Document Type: Article

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