Exploring phenotypic plasticity and biogeography in emerald moths: A phylogeny of the genus Nemoria (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 477-487

  Canfield, Michael R ^a   Greene, Erick ^b   Moreau, Corrie S ^a,c   Chen, Nancy ^a   Pierce, Naomi E ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caterpillar; Geometridae; Geometrinae; Larvae; Lepidoptera; Nemoria; Phenotypic plasticity; Polyphenism

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; LARVA; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOTH; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, INSECT; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GEOGRAPHY; LARVA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOTHS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

GEOMETRIDAE; GEOMETRINAE; GEOMETROIDEA; LEPIDOPTERA; NEMORIA; NEMORIA ARIZONARIA;

EID: 55049123661     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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