A mitochondrial-DNA-based phylogeny for some evolutionary-genetic model species of Colias butterflies (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 893-902

  Wheat, Christopher W ^a,b   Watt, Ward B ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barcoding; Colias; Cryptic species; Evolution; Interior branch tests; Molecular phylogeny; mtDNA; Paired site tests

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BUTTERFLY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; FORELIMB; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BUTTERFLIES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS); WING;

COLIAS; COLIAS HECLA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PIERIDAE;

EID: 43949095784     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.03.013     Document Type: Article

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