Evolution of the nocturnal Nearctic Sphaeropthalminae velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) driven by Neogene orogeny and Pleistocene glaciation

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 134-145

  Pitts, James P ^a   Wilson, Joseph S ^a   von Dohlen, Carol D ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Desert biogeography; Secondary sexual characteristics; Velvet ants

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BAYES THEOREM; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, GENETIC; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

HYMENOPTERA; MUTILLIDAE; ODONTOPHOTOPSIS; SPHAEROPTHALMA; SPHAEROPTHALMINAE;

EID: 77953140803     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.03.033     Document Type: Article

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