Convergent evolution of gigantism in damselflies of Africa and South America? Evidence from nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 339-346

  Groeneveld, Linn F ^a   Clausnitzer, Viola ^b   Hadrys, Heike ^a,c  

^a ITZ   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rDNA; EF1; ND1; Odonata; Pseudostigmatidae

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR 1; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; RNA 16S;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; INSECT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SOUTH AMERICA;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NADH DEHYDROGENASE; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ODONATA; PSEUDOSTIGMATIDAE; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 33751247345     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.05.040     Document Type: Article

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