Good species behaving badly: Non-monophyly of black fly sibling species in the Simulium arcticum complex (Diptera: Simuliidae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 245-257

  Conflitti, Ida M ^a,b   Kratochvil, Michael J ^c   Spironello, Michael ^a,b   Shields, Gerald F ^c   Currie, Douglas C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^c CARROLL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carnoy's fixative; Chromosomal speciation; Cytogenetics; Cytospecies; Cytotype; Incomplete lineage sorting; Introgressive hybridization; Mitochondrial DNA; Paraphyly; Polyphyly

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENETICS; LARVA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIMULIIDAE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC SPECIATION; LARVA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIMULIIDAE;

DIPTERA; SIMULIIDAE; SIMULIUM ARCTICUM; SIMULIUM NIGRICOXUM;

EID: 77956231923     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.06.024     Document Type: Article

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