Putative native source of the invasive fire ant Solenopsis invicta in the USA

Biological Invasions

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1457-1479

  Caldera, Eric J ^a   Ross, Kenneth G ^b   DeHeer, Christopher J ^c   Shoemaker, D DeWayne ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c LI COR BIOSCIENCES   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Allozymes; Fire ant; Genetic structure; Invasive species; Microsatellites; mtDNA; Native source population; Solenopsis invicta

Indexed keywords

ALLOZYME; ANT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; FIRE; FLOODPLAIN; GENETIC MARKER; INVASIVE SPECIES; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS;

NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

EID: 54849436256     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-008-9219-0     Document Type: Article

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