Species delimitation and phylogeography of Aphonopelma hentzi (araneae, mygalomorphae, theraphosidae): Cryptic diversity in north american tarantulas

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Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Hamilton, Chris A ^a   Formanowicz, Daniel R ^b   Bond, Jason E ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APHONOPELMA HENTZI; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BAYES THEOREM; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CO1 GENE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BARCODING; DNA DETERMINATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; GLACIATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HOST RANGE; ND1 16S GENE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; SAMPLING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DELIMITATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES REFUGE; SPIDER; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ANIMALIA; APHONOPELMA; APHONOPELMA HENTZI; ARANEAE; MYGALOMORPHAE; TARANTULA; THERAPHOSIDAE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPIDERS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80053978542     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026207     Document Type: Article

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