Genetic relationships between native and introduced populations of the little fire ant Wasmannia auropunctata

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 573-579

  Mikheyev, Alexander S ^a   Mueller, Ulrich G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Body size; Cytochrome oxidase; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogeography; PIC

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BODY SIZE; GENETICS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NATIVE SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

FORMICIDAE; VERTEBRATA; WASMANNIA AUROPUNCTATA;

EID: 34547916430     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00370.x     Document Type: Article

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