Paleodistributions and comparative molecular phylogeography of leafcutter ants (Atta spp.) provide new insight into the origins of Amazonian diversity

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Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Solomon, Scott E ^a,b,c   Bacci Jr , Mauricio ^c   Martins Jr , Joaquim ^c   Vinha, Giovanna Gonçalves ^c   Mueller, Ulrich G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; INTERFERON;

ALLOPATRY; ANT; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MIOCENE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDICTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTH AMERICA; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ATTA; FORMICIDAE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; INTERFERON TYPE I; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTH AMERICA; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 50549084770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002738     Document Type: Article

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