Repeated evolution in overlapping mimicry rings among North American velvet ants

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wilson, Joseph S ^a   Williams, Kevin A ^a   Forister, Matthew L ^b   Von Dohlen, Carol D ^a   Pitts, James P ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; ANT; BEE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLOR MORPH; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; MIMICRY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PHYLOGENETICS; WASP;

ARTICLE; COLOR; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT STING; MULLERIAN MIMICRY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; VELVET ANT;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

APOCRITA; DASYMUTILLA; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; MUTILLIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84871730521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2275     Document Type: Article

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