Molecular systematics and biogeography of Nicrophorus in part-The investigator species group (Coleoptera: Silphidae) using mixture model MCMC

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 646-666

  Sikes, Derek S ^a   Vamosi, Steven M ^a   Trumbo, Stephen T ^b   Ricketts, Marcia ^c   Venables, Chandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian Inference; BayesPhylogenies; Mixture model; MrBayes; Nicrophorinae; Nicrophorus; Reversible jump; Silphidae

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASIA; BAYES THEOREM; BEETLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; ASIA; BAYES THEOREM; BEETLES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

COLEOPTERA; NICROPHORINAE; NICROPHORUS; NICROPHORUS INVESTIGATOR; SILPHIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 47949103750     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.04.034     Document Type: Article

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