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Large amounts of genetic divergence among Italian species of the genus Orchesella (Insecta, collembola) and the relationships of two new species.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Dec 2000
Frati F, Dell'Ampio E, Casasanta S, Carapelli A, Paolo Fanciulli P
Abstract excerpt
The phylogenetic position of two putative new species of the collembolan genus Orchesella was investigated by comparison with four other Italian species of the genus using a fragment of the mitochondrial gene encoding for subunit I of cytochrome c oxidase (COI). The gene showed the well-known A + T bias, typical of insect mitochondrial DNA, although A + T content was not as high as that observed in species...
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