The phylogenetic placement and biogeographical origins of the New Zealand stick insects (Phasmatodea)

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 207-225

  Buckley, Thomas R ^a   Attanayake, Dilini ^a   Nylander, Johan A A ^b   Bradler, Sven ^c  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CYTOCHROME; DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; HOST PLANT; INSECT; MIOCENE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OLIGOCENE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; VICARIANCE;

NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; NEW ZEALAND;

HEXAPODA; MYA; PHASMATODEA;

EID: 77954448044     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: 13653113     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00505.x     Document Type: Article

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