Compensatory base changes illuminate morphologically difficult taxonomy

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 664-669

  Ruhl, Michael W ^a   Wolf, Matthias ^b   Jenkins, Tracie M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Altica litigata; Altica sp.; Compensatory base changes; Internal transcribed spacer 2; Speciation

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ALTICA; COLEOPTERA; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 73149085504     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.07.036     Document Type: Article

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