Red drifters and dark residents: The phylogeny and ecology of a Plio-Pleistocene dragonfly radiation reflects Africa's changing environment (Odonata, Libellulidae, Trithemis)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 870-882

  Damm, Sandra ^a   Dijkstra, Klaas Douwe B ^c   Hadrys, Heike ^a,b  

^a ITZ   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Africa; Environmental change; Molecular phylogeny; Odonata; Rapid radiation; Trithemis

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENE; GENETICS; INSECT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC SPECIATION; INSECTS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); LIBELLULIDAE; MYA; ODONATA; TRITHEMIS;

EID: 76649120518     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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