A multilocus perspective on phylogenetic relationships in the Namib darkling beetle genus Onymacris (Tenebrionidae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 757-765

  Lamb, Trip ^a   Bond, Jason E ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adesmiini; Coleoptera systematics; Molecular clock dating; Namib desert; Psammophily; Southern Africa

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NAMIBIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BEETLES; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NAMIBIA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

COLEOPTERA; ONYMACRIS; PHYSADESMIA; TENEBRIONIDAE;

EID: 84873179815     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.10.026     Document Type: Article

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