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Phylogeny of the mega-diverse Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera): adaptations and determinants of success.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Dec 2011
Kaila Lauri, Mutanen Marko, Nyman Tommi
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The Gelechioidea, with 18,000 described and many more unnamed species ranks among the most diverse lepidopteran superfamilies. Nevertheless, their taxonomy has remained largely unresolved, and phylogenetic affinities among gelechioid families and lower taxa have been insufficiently understood. We constructed, for the first time, a comprehensive molecular phylogeny for the Gelechioidea. We sampled seven genes, in...
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