Kissing bugs or triatomines (Reduviidae: Triatominae) are vectors of the Chagas' disease
agent Trypanosoma cruzi. There is a current need for more sensitive tools for use in …

Phylogenetic relationships among the 12 recognized fish species in the New World genus
Centropomus (Pisces, Centropomidae) were analyzed using allozyme electrophoresis and …

Summary The bee genus Lasioglossum Curtis is a model taxon for studying the evolutionary
origins of and reversals in eusociality. This paper presents a phylogenetic analysis of …

The family Bovidae is characterized by an incomplete fossil record for the period during
which most bovid subfamilies emerged. This, coupled to extensive morphological …

The genus Calathus Bonelli comprises 24 species on the Canary Islands. Sequences of 927
and 687 bp of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I and II genes, respectively, as well as …

If a gene tree is to be judiciously used for inferring the histories of closely related taxa,(1) its
topology must be sufficiently resolved and robust that noteworthy phylogenetic patterns can …

Diagnostic genetic markers from 486 aligned nucleotide sequences of mitochondrial 16S
ribosomal DNA were developed for the four closely related species of dreissenoid and …

The parasitoid wasp genus Lysiphlebus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) contains a
taxonomically poorly resolved group of both sexual (arrhenotokous) species and asexual …

The most extensively studied group of Darwin's finches is the genus Geospiza, the ground
finches, and yet little is known about the evolutionary history and genetic relationships of …

抄録 The mitochondrial gene sequences of 682 bp encoding cytochrome oxidase subunit II
(COII) were deter-mined for seven species of the genus Ostrinia in Japan and a single …