Steady Plio-Pleistocene diversification and a 2-million-year sympatry threshold in a New Zealand cicada radiation

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1054-1066

  Marshall, David C ^a   Slon, Karen ^a   Cooley, John R ^a   Hill, Kathy B R ^a   Simon, Chris ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Acoustic behavior; Cicadidae; Relaxed clock priors; Sexual signals; Speciation; Sympatry threshold; Taxon sampling

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HEMIPTERA; INSECT; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEW ZEALAND; PHYLOGENY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HEMIPTERA; INSECTS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; NEW ZEALAND; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CICADA; CICADIDAE; HEXAPODA; KIKIHIA;

EID: 50249096180     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.05.007     Document Type: Article

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