The Importance of Using Multiple Approaches for Identifying Emerging Invasive Species: The Case of the Rasberry Crazy Ant in the United States

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Gotzek, Dietrich ^a   Brady, Seán G ^a   Kallal, Robert J ^b   LaPolla, John S ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ANT; ARTICLE; HYMENOPTERA; INVASIVE SPECIES; MASS MEDIUM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; NYLANDERIA FULVA; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; RASPBERRY CRAZY ANT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; DEMOGRAPHY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

PARATRECHINA LONGICORNIS;

EID: 84866546839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045314     Document Type: Article

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