Out-of-Africa again: A phylogenetic hypothesis of the genus Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based on five gene regions

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 463-478

  Aduse Poku, Kwaku ^a,b   Vingerhoedt, Eric ^c   Wahlberg, Niklas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^c University of Turku ^*  (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Africa; Butterflies; Historical biogeography; Molecular systematics; Timing of divergences

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; LEPIDOPTERA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CHARAXES; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE; PALLA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PLEIONE; POLYURA;

EID: 69049100955     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.06.021     Document Type: Article

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