Genetic differentiation in the soil-feeding termite Cubitermes sp. affinis subarquatus: Occurrence of cryptic species revealed by nuclear and mitochondrial markers

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Roy, Virginie ^a   Demanche, Christine ^a,b   Livet, Alexandre ^a   Harry, Myriam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; CYTOCHROME OXIDASE II; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME DNA; GENETIC MARKER; MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUBITERMES AFFINIS SUBARQUATUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; ISOPTERA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; GABON; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CUBITERMES; ISOPTERA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GABON; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; ISOPTERA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 33845483147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-6-102     Document Type: Article

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