Starting from Crete, a phylogenetic re-analysis of the genus Reticulitermes in the Mediterranean area

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1051-1058

  Velonà, Alessandro ^a   Ghesini, Silvia ^a   Luchetti, Andrea ^a   Marini, Mario ^a   Mantovani, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

16S; Chronogram; Cladogenesis; Cytochrome oxidase II; Inter SINE; Isoptera

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GREECE; HAPLOTYPE; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GREECE; HAPLOTYPES; ISOPTERA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES BALKANENSIS; RETICULITERMES BANYULENSIS; RETICULITERMES GRASSEI; RETICULITERMES LUCIFUGUS; RETICULITERMES URBIS;

EID: 77954423860     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.04.037     Document Type: Article

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