Integration of molecular, ecological, morphological and endosymbiont data for species delimitation within the Pnigalio soemius complex (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1190-1208

  Gebiola, M ^a   Gomez Zurita J ^b   Monti, M M ^a   Navone, P ^c   Bernardo, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY CSIC UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

cryptic species; host specificity; integrative taxonomy; morphometry; Rickettsia; thelytoky

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HYMENOPTERA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HYMENOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

EULOPHIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; PNIGALIO SOEMIUS; RICKETTSIA;

EID: 84857632922     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05428.x     Document Type: Article

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