Is it easy to be urban? Convergent success in urban habitats among lineages of a widespread native ant

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Menke, Sean B ^a   Booth, Warren ^a   Dunn, Robert R ^a   Schal, Coby ^a   Vargo, Edward L ^a   Silverman, Jules ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARTICLE; DNA BARCODING; GENETIC DISTANCE; HAPLOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; TAPINOMA SESSILE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTH AMERICA;

TAPINOMA SESSILE;

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTS; CITIES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77949474281     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009194     Document Type: Article

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