Comparative phylogeography and speciation of dung beetles from the Australian Wet Tropics rainforest

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 4984-4998

  Bell, Karen L ^a,b   Moritz, Craig ^b,c   Moussalli, Adnan ^b,d   Yeates, David K ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NATAL PIETERMARITZBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Dung beetles; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogeography; Speciation; Temnoplectron; Tropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BEETLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BEETLES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; TEMNOPLECTRON; TEMNOPLECTRON AENEOPICEUM; TEMNOPLECTRON POLITULUM; TEMNOPLECTRON REYI; TEMNOPLECTRON SUBVOLITANS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 36349001867     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03533.x     Document Type: Article

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