▪ Abstract Insect molecular systematics has undergone remarkable recent growth. Advances
in methods of data generation and analysis have led to the accumulation of large amounts of …

A set of mitochondrial COI primers has been studied by genomic PCR and many primer
combinations shown to work universally well across Insects. They are able to amplify various …

A common assumption in comparative sequence analysis is that the sequences have
evolved with the same pattern of nucleotide substitution (homogeneity of the evolutionary …

Rates of sequence evolution were estimated for the cytochromeb (cytb) and NADH
dehydrogenase subunit 2 (ND2) genes using a phylogeny of the dabbling ducks (Tribe …

Despite extensive studies on the ecology and evolution of the freshwater microcrustacean
Daphnia, there is little understanding of the evolutionary history of the genus. Past attempts …

We examined the contribution of morphological and molecular character information for 15
systematics studies in which these two kinds of data were used in combined or simultaneous …

Among root knot nematodes of the genus Meloidogyne, the polyploid obligate mitotic
parthenogens M. arenaria, M. javanica, and M. incognita are widespread and common …

We hypothesize that the evolution of an ecologically important character, the host
associations of specialized phytophagous insects, has been influenced by limitations on …

The possibility of gene tree incongruence in a species-level phylogenetic analysis of the
genus Ips (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) was investigated based on mitochondrial 16S rRNA …

Fragments of both mitochondrial ribosomal RNA genes of 32 caeliferan taxa (representing
six of the seven superfamilies) and six outgroup Orthopteroids were sequenced. The …