Applying DNA barcoding for the study of geographical variation in host-parasitoid interactions

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 46-59

  Santos, Ana M C ^a,b   Besnard, Guillaume ^a   Quicke, Donald L J ^a,c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Cytochrome oxidase I; Diptera; Hymenoptera; Immature stages; Macaronesia; Molecular operational taxonomic units; Tortricidae

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; INSECT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BARCODING; ENZYMOLOGY; EUPHORBIA; EUROPE; EVALUATION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTH; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EUPHORBIA; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; PHYLOGENY;

DIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; TORTRICIDAE;

EID: 78650099257     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2010.02889.x     Document Type: Article

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