Twenty four new microsatellite markers in two invasive pavement ants, Tetramorium sp.E and T. tsushimae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 757-759

  Steiner, Florian M ^a,b   Arthofer, Wolfgang ^a   Schlick Steiner, Birgit C ^a,b   Crozier, Ross H ^b   Stauffer, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Invasion history; Invasive ants; Life history; Microsatellites; Tetramorium

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LIFE HISTORY; POPULATION GENETICS;

NORTH AMERICA;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; TETRAMORIUM; TETRAMORIUM CAESPITUM; TETRAMORIUM TSUSHIMAE;

EID: 42549123624     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-007-9385-0     Document Type: Article

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