Diversification and phylogeographic structure in widespread Azteca plant-ants from the northern Neotropics

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 3576-3592

  Pringle, Elizabeth G ^a   Ramírez, Santiago R ^b,c   Bonebrake, Timothy C ^a,d   Gordon, Deborah M ^a   Dirzo, Rodolfo ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ant plant mutualism; Cordia alliodora; gene trees; Middle America; phylogeography; Pleistocene climate changes; seasonally dry tropical forests

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTRAL AMERICA; CLIMATE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTRAL AMERICA; CLIMATE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE FLOW; GENETICS, POPULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AZTECA; AZTECA PITTIERI; CORDIA; CORDIA ALLIODORA; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 84863725350     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05618.x     Document Type: Article

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