The many ways to delimit species: Hairs, genes and surface chemistry

Myrmecological News

Volumn 15, Issue , 2011, Pages 31-41

  Seppä, Perttu ^a   Helanterä, Heikki ^b   Trontti, Kalevi ^a   Punttila, Pekka ^c   Chernenko, Anton ^a   Martin, Stephen J ^c   Sundström, Liselotte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Allozymes; Cuticular hydrocarbons; DNA barcoding; DNA microsatellites; Formica; Morphology; Species delimitation

Indexed keywords

FORMICA; FORMICA FUSCA; FORMICA LEMANI; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 79958220510     PISSN: 19944136     EISSN: 19973500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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