The evolutionary history of termites as inferred from 66 mitochondrial genomes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 406-421

  Bourguignon, Thomas ^a,b,c   Lo, Nathan ^d   Cameron, Stephen L ^e   Šobotník, Jan ^c   Hayashi, Yoshinobu ^b,d   Shigenobu, Shuji ^f   Watanabe, Dai ^b   Roisin, Yves ^g   Miura, Toru ^b   Evans, Theodore A ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^f OKAZAKI INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOSCIENCE   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Isoptera; Molecular clock; Molecular phylogeny

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ASIA; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CALIBRATION; CLADISTICS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CRYPTOCERCUS; FOSSIL; HABITAT; ISOPTERA; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; ISOPTERA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84939256329     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu308     Document Type: Article

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