Extreme diversity of tropical parasitoid wasps exposed by iterative integration of natural history, DNA barcoding, morphology, and collections

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 34, 2008, Pages 12359-12364

  Smith, M Alex ^a   Rodriguez, Josephine J ^b   Whitfield, James B ^b   Deans, Andrew R ^c   Janzen, Daniel H ^d   Hallwachs, Winnie ^d   Hebert, Paul D N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Area de Conservaci n Guanacaste; Braconidae; Caterpillar; Costa Rica; Host specificity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATERPILLAR; COSTA RICA; DNA BARCODING; ECOLOGY; HOST; HOST RANGE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STIGMA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WASP;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BIODIVERSITY; COSTA RICA; DATA COLLECTION; DNA; GENES, INSECT; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; NATURAL HISTORY; PARASITES; WASPS;

APANTELES; BRACONIDAE; HESPERIIDAE;

EID: 50449102560     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805319105     Document Type: Article

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