High mitochondrial diversity in geographically widespread butterflies of Madagascar: A test of the DNA barcoding approach

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 485-495

  Linares, Marjorie C ^a   Soto Calderón, Iván D ^a,b   Lees, David C ^c   Anthony, Nicola M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barcoding; Comparative phylogeography; Heteropsis; Lepidoptera; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MICROBIOLOGY; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WOLBACHIA;

HETEROPSIS (BUTTERFLY); LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 60649084369     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.11.008     Document Type: Article

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