An ancient tripartite symbiosis of plants, ants and scale insects

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1649, 2008, Pages 2319-2326

  Ueda, Shouhei ^a   Quek, Swee Peck ^b   Itioka, Takao ^c   Inamori, Keita ^a   Sato, Yumiko ^a   Murase, Kaori ^d   Itino, Takao ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coccus; Coevolutionary radiation; Mitochondrial DNA cytochrome oxidase I gene phylogeny; Myrmecophytic Macaranga; Southeast Asia

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANT; COEVOLUTION; DNA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HOST PLANT; MUTUALISM; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SPECIALIZATION; SYMBIOSIS;

ANT; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; COCCUS; COEVOLUTION; CREMATOGASTER; INSECT; MACARANGA; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

COCCIDAE; COCCOIDEA; COCCUS (SCALE); FORMICIDAE; HEMIPTERA; MACARANGA;

EID: 51449097744     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0573     Document Type: Article

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