Revival of Palaeoptera-head characters support a monophyletic origin of Odonata and Ephemeroptera (Insecta)

Cladistics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 560-581

  Blanke, Alexander ^a   Wipfler, Benjamin ^b   Letsch, Harald ^c   Koch, Markus ^d   Beckmann, Felix ^e   Beutel, Rolf ^b   Misof, Bernhard ^a  

^a Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; DRAGONFLY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FLIGHT; MAYFLY; MORPHOLOGY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; SPERM; TAXONOMY;

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); ARCHAEOGNATHA; DICONDYLIA; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LESTES VIRENS; NEOPTERA; ODONATA; PALAEOPTERA; PTERYGOTA (WINGED INSECTS); THYSANURA;

EID: 84869201936     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: 10960031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00405.x     Document Type: Article

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