Molecular systematics and phylogeography of the gigantic earthworms of the Metaphire formosae species group (Clitellata, Megascolecidae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 958-968

  Chang, Chih Han ^a   Lin, Si Min ^b   Chen, Jiun Hong ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Megascolecidae; Metaphire formosae species group; Pheretima complex; Phylogeography; Systematics

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TAIWAN;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, RRNA; GENETIC SPECIATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NADH DEHYDROGENASE; OLIGOCHAETA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TAIWAN;

AMYNTHAS; ANNELIDA; CLITELLATA; EARTHWORMS (SP.); MEGASCOLECIDAE; METAPHIRE; METAPHIRE BUNUNA; METAPHIRE FORMOSAE; METAPHIRE PAIWANNA; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); PHERETIMA;

EID: 56549130453     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.08.025     Document Type: Article

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