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Cuticular hydrocarbons suggest three lineages in Reticulitermes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) from North America.
Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part B, Biochemistry & molecular biology - 1 Mar 2002
Page Marion, Nelson Lori J, Forschler Brian T, Haverty Michael I
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Cuticular hydrocarbon mixtures can be used to discriminate insect taxa. They have utility for determining phylogenetic relationships where they are independent characters with discrete states and represent a hierarchical distribution of shared, derived characters. We report inferred degrees of relatedness among the chemical phenotypes of Reticulitermes from PAUP (phylogenetic analysis using parsimony) analyses of...
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