Intergenic exchange, geographic isolation, and the evolution of bioluminescent color for pyrophorus click beetles

Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1203-1216

  Feder, Jeffrey L ^a   Velez, Sebastian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene duplication; Intergenic recombination; Jamaica; Luciferase

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

BEETLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; COLOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER; HOMOGENEITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CLASSIFICATION; COLOR; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; JAMAICA; LUMINESCENCE; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; COLOR; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; JAMAICA; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS);

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; GREATER ANTILLES; JAMAICA;

COLEOPTERA; ELATERIDAE; PYROPHORUS; PYROPHORUS PLAGIOPHTHALAMUS;

EID: 64749101603     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00623.x     Document Type: Article

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