Mountain refugia play a role in soil arthropod speciation on Madagascar: A case study of the endemic giant fire-millipede genus Aphistogoniulus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Wesener, Thomas ^a   Raupach, Michael J ^b   Decker, Peter ^c  

^a ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^b SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c SENCKENBERG MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY GÖRLITZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; DNA 18S; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

APHISTOGONIULUS COWANI; APHISTOGONIULUS DIABOLICUS; APHISTOGONIULUS JEEKELI; APHISTOGONIULUS RUBRODORSALIS; APHISTOGONIULUS SANGUINEUS; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CLADISTICS; COLOSSOBOLUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INSECT; MADAGASCAR; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SANGUINOBOLUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIODIVERSITY; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MADAGASCAR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

EID: 82755186973     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028035     Document Type: Article

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