Phylogeny of the ants: Diversification in the age of angiosperms

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5770, 2006, Pages 101-104

  Moreau, Corrie S ^a   Bell, Charles D ^b   Vila, Roger ^a   Archibald, S Bruce ^a   Pierce, Naomi E ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA REDUCTION; GENES;

AGE CONSTRAINTS; ANGIOSPERMS; DIVERGENCE TIME; PHYLOGENY;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ANT; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

ANGIOSPERM; ANT; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; FOSSIL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERBIVORY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TIME; UPPER CRETACEOUS; YPRESIAN;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMALS; ANTS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GENES, INSECT; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; PHYLOGENY; TIME; TREES;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 33645665925     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1124891     Document Type: Article

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