Phylogeographic analysis of the nocturnal velvet ant genus Dilophotopsis (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) provides insights into diversification in the Nearctic deserts

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 360-375

  Wilson, Joseph S ^a   Pitts, James P ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Historical biogeography; Mountain uplift; North American; Pleistocene; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DESERT; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MIOCENE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MOUNTAIN; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; OROGRAPHY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; VICARIANCE; WASP;

NORTH AMERICA;

HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; MUTILLIDAE; MYA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78649420823     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01526.x     Document Type: Article

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