Evolutionary geographic relationships among orthocladine chironomid midges from maritime Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 258-274

  Allegrucci, Giuliana ^a   Carchini, Gianmaria ^a   Convey, Peter ^b   Sbordoni, Valerio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Belgica albipes; Belgica antarctica; Cox1 barcode; Demographic analysis; Genetic differentiation; Genetic structure; Maritime Antarctica

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; CYTOCHROME; DISPERSAL; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; INSECT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SUBANTARCTIC REGION; SURVIVAL; TAXONOMY;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; CROZET ISLANDS; FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES; INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTH GEORGIA; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS; WEST ANTARCTICA;

BELGICA; BELGICA ANTARCTICA; CHIRONOMIDAE; ERETMOPTERA MURPHYI; ORTHOCLADIINAE;

EID: 84859903466     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01864.x     Document Type: Article

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