title: Comparison of isoenzyme electrophoresis and morphometric analysis for phylogenetic reconstruction of the Rhodniini (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae).
abstract: A phylogenetic reconstruction of the medically important tribe Rhodniini (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) based on multilocus isoenzyme electrophoresis is compared with phylogenetic patterns derived from a traditional morphometric analysis. Even with non-normality in the morphometric data, and some inequalities in population variances, discriminant analysis of size-free variables provided broadly similar phylogenetic information to that derived from isoenzyme analysis, revealing 3 main species groups within the genus Rhodnius.
authors.affiliation: UMR CNRS-ORSTOM 9926, ORSTOM, Montpellier, France.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Dujardin
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Chavez
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Moreno
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Machane
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Noireau
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Schofield
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D004586:Electrophoresis; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000201:enzymology; D010802:Phylogeny; D012239:Rhodnius / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D007527:Isoenzymes