Filogenia de las hormigas: diversificación en la edad de las angiospermas

Corrie S Moreau1, Charles D Bell, Roger Vila

  • 1Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. cmoreau@oeb.harvard.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|April 8, 2006
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Resumen

Este estudio presenta una filogenia molecular a gran escala para las hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), revelando sus principales subfamilias diversificadas durante el Cretácico Tardío al Eoceno Temprano, coincidiendo con la evolución de las angiospermas.

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