An evaluation of phylogenetic informativeness profiles and the molecular phylogeny of diplazontinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae)

Systematic Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 226-241

  Klopfstein, Seraina ^a   Kropf, Christian ^a   Quicke, Donald L J ^b,c  

^a NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM DER BURGERGEMEINDE BERN   (Switzerland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

28S rRNA; CO1 mtDNA; Information content; Nucleotide composition bias; Parasitoid; Phylogenetic utility; Simulation

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; PRIMER DNA; RNA 28S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL; WASP; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RESEARCH DESIGN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WASPS;

DIPLAZONTINAE; HYMENOPTERA; ICHNEUMONIDAE;

EID: 77649244194     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syp105     Document Type: Article

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