An old adaptive radiation of forest dung beetles in Madagascar

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1076-1089

  Wirta, Helena ^a   Orsini, Luisa ^a   Hanski, Ilkka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Divergence time; Helictopleurus; Host shift; Molecular phylogeny; Oniticellini; Onthophagini; Range expansion; Resource competition; Resource use; Scarabaeidae

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BEETLE; CATTLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MADAGASCAR; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TIME; TREE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BEETLES; CATTLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; GEOGRAPHY; MADAGASCAR; PHYLOGENY; TIME FACTORS; TREES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BOS; COLEOPTERA; LEMURIDAE; MAMMALIA; SCARABAEIDAE; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 43949105500     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.03.010     Document Type: Article

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