Identification of Chilean Reticulitermes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) inferred from three mitochondrial gene DNA sequences and soldier morphology

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 352-363

  Su, Nan Yao ^a   Ye, Weimin ^a   Ripa, Renato ^b   Scheffrahn, Rudolf H ^a   Giblin Davis, Robin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGROPECUARIAS   (Chile)

Author keywords

12S; 16S; COII; Molecular phylogenetics; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS;

ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; RETICULITERMES SANTONENSIS; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 33748741737     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2006)099[0352:IOCRIR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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