Phylogeography of the parthenogenic ant Platythyrea punctata: Highly successful colonization of the West Indies by a poor disperser

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 868-882

  Seal, Jon N ^b   Kellner, Katrin ^b   Trindl, Andreas ^a   Heinze, Juergen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ants; Caribbean; Central America; Climate change; Formicidae; Parthenogenesis; Phylogeography; Pleistocene; Sexual reproduction; Thelytoky

Indexed keywords

ANT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONIZATION; CYTOCHROME; DISPERSAL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYMPATRY; THELYTOKY;

BAHAMAS; BARBADOS; GREATER ANTILLES; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

FORMICIDAE; PLATYTHYREA; PLATYTHYREA PUNCTATA;

EID: 79955004748     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02447.x     Document Type: Article

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