Molecular comparisons suggest caribbean crazy ant from Florida and rasberry crazy ant from Texas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Nylanderia) are the same species

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1008-1018

  Zhao, Liming ^a   Chen, Jian ^a   Jones, Walker A ^a   Oi, David H ^b   Drees, Bastian M ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cDNA; ecotype; genomic DNA; Nylanderia pubens; Partrechina pubens

Indexed keywords

ANT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOCHROME; ECOTYPE; GENOMICS; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PEST DAMAGE; PEST SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; PROTEIN;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; HOUSTON; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865423474     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN11287     Document Type: Article

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