Phylogenetic studies of ribosomal RNA variation in higher moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia).

doi:10.1016/1055-7903(92)90007-4

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Phylogenetic studies of ribosomal RNA variation in higher moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia).

Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Dec 1992

Weller S J, Friedlander T P, Martin J A, Pashley D P

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The selection of exemplars has been shown both theoretically and empirically to affect tree topology, but the importance of the number and nature of taxa used to represent higher taxonomic lineages in molecular studies is rarely stressed. In our rRNA study of higher moths and butterflies (Lepidop...

Topics

Animals
Base Sequence
Butterflies
DNA Primers
Genetic Variation
Molecular Sequence Data
Moths
Phylogeny
RNA, Ribosomal
Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
Species Specificity

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