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Molecular phylogeny among local populations of weaver ant Oecophylla smaragdina.
Zoological science - 1 Nov 2002
Azuma Noriko, Kikuchi Tomonori, Ogata Kazuo, Higashi Seigo
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The molecular phylogeny of 24 Oecophylla smaragdina populations and two O. longinoda populations was studied using 647 bp of the mitochondrial cyt b gene. The phylogenetic analysis suggested that O. smaragdina and O. longinoda were separated from each other first, and after that the first within-species divergence of O. smaragdina occurred in early stage of their history, in which the Asian, Australian, and...
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