Temporal Congruence Revisited: Comparison of Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Divergence in Cospeciating Pocket Gophers and their Chewing Lice | Zendy

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Temporal Congruence Revisited: Comparison of Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Divergence in Cospeciating Pocket Gophers and their Chewing Lice

Author(s) -

Roderic Page

Publication year - 1996

Publication title -

systematic biology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 7.128

H-Index - 182

eISSN - 1076-836X

pISSN - 1063-5157

DOI - 10.1093/sysbio/45.2.151

Subject(s) - biology , louse , divergence (linguistics) , mitochondrial dna , evolutionary biology , congruence (geometry) , clade , cladistics , phylogenetic tree , sequence (biology) , zoology , genetics , gene , philosophy , linguistics , geometry , mathematics

.--- Molecular phylogenies can be used to test hypotheses ofcospeciation between hosts and parasites by comparing both cladisticrelationships and branch lengths. Molecular data can also help discriminatebetween competing reconstructions of the history of the host-parasiteassociation. Methods for comparing sequence divergence in hosts and parasitesare described and applied to data for pocket gophers and their chewing lice.The hypothesis of cospeciation between these two clades is strongly...

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