Unprecedented ichneumonid parasitoid wasp diversity in tropical forests

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1748, 2012, Pages 4694-4698

  Veijalainen, Anu ^a,b   Wahlberg, Niklas ^a   Broad, Gavin R ^c   Erwin, Terry L ^d   Longino, John T ^e   Sääksjärvi, Ilari E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptic species; DNA barcoding; Latitudinal diversity gradient; Neotropics; Orthocentrinae

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868117559     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1664     Document Type: Article

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