Molecular taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships among Australian Nasutitermes and Tumulitermes genera (Isoptera, Nasutitermitinae) inferred from mitochondrial COII and 16S sequences

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 813-821

  Bergamaschi, Silvia ^a   Dawes Gromadzki, Tracy Z ^b   Luchetti, Andrea ^a   Marini, Mario ^a   Mantovani, Barbara ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica Sperimentale   (Italy)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

16S; COII; Isoptera; Maximum Likelihood; Maximum Parsimony; Nasutitermes; Tumulitermes

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOPTERA; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; ISOPTERA; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

ISOPTERA; NASUTITERMES; NASUTITERMES LONGIPENNIS; NASUTITERMITINAE; TERMITIDAE; TUMULITERMES;

EID: 36049039785     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.07.014     Document Type: Article

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