Molecular systematics of sclerosomatid harvestmen (Opiliones, Phalangioidea, Sclerosomatidae): Geography is better than taxonomy in predicting phylogeny

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 224-236

  Hedin, Marshal ^a   Tsurusaki, Nobuo ^b   Macías Ordóñez, Rogelio ^c   Shultz, Jeffrey W ^d  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Arachnida; Biogeography; Boreotropic Concept; Morphological homoplasy; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; ELONGATION FACTOR 1; HISTONE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL; ARACHNID; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ARACHNIDA; ARTHROPOD PROTEINS; BAYES THEOREM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; FEMALE; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; HISTONES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ARACHNIDA; LEIOBUNUM; METOPILIO GROUP; NELIMA; OPILIONES; PHALANGIIDAE; PHALANGIOIDEA; SCLEROSOMATIDAE;

EID: 83655184777     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.09.017     Document Type: Article

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