Stridulations reveal cryptic speciation in neotropical sympatric ants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Ferreira, Ronara Souza ^a   Poteaux, Chantal ^a   Delabie, Jacques Hubert Charles ^b   Fresneau, Dominique ^a   Rybak, Fanny ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; MORPHOLOGY; NEOTROPICS; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACHYCONDYLA APICALIS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYMPATRY; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; FRENCH GUIANA; GENETICS; MEXICO; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

FORMICIDAE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; ANTS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FRENCH GUIANA; MEXICO; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78650974305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015363     Document Type: Article

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