Population history in social spiders repeated: Colony structure and lineage evolution in Stegodyphus mimosarum (Eresidae)

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2812-2818

  Johannesen, Jes ^a   Wickler, Wolfgang ^b   Seibt, Uta ^b   Moritz, Robin F A ^c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inbred lineages; Interdemic selection; MtDNA; Social spider

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPIDER;

AFRICA, EASTERN; AFRICA, SOUTHERN; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPIDERS;

ARANEAE; ERESIDAE; STEGODYPHUS; STEGODYPHUS DUMICOLA;

EID: 67649872625     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04238.x     Document Type: Article

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