Western Palaearctic phylogeography of an inquiline oak gall wasp, Synergus umbraculus

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 750-764

  Bihari, Péter ^a   Sipos, Botond ^a   Melika, George ^b   Fehér, Balázs ^a   Somogyi, Kálmán ^a   Stone, Graham N ^c   Pénzes, Zsolt ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

^b CENTRAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Cynipidae; Host association; MtDNA diversity

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; CYTOCHROME; GALL; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; HERBIVORY; HOST RANGE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NATURAL ENEMY; PALEARCTIC REGION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; REFUGIUM; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TROPHIC LEVEL; WASP;

CENTRAL EUROPE; IRAN; TURKEY;

CYNIPIDAE; CYNIPINI; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; QUERCUS; SYNERGINI; SYNERGUS;

EID: 79952594658     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01609.x     Document Type: Article

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