Nuclear copies of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have contaminated PCR-based mitochondrial
studies of over 64 different animal species. Since the last review of these nuclear …

I n the past two decades, two innovations have had great impact on molecular population
genetic studies, particularly as they affect animal evolutionary biology. First was the discovery …

Population‐genetic studies have been remarkably productive and successful in the last
decade following the invention of PCR technology and the introduction of mitochondrial and …

The control region is the only major non-coding region in the mitochondrial genome of
insects. It is heavily biased to A+T nucleotides and seems to evolve under a strong directional …

Heavy metal pollution has pervaded many parts of the world, especially in developing countries.
The purpose of this study was to determine the concentrations and health risks of heavy …

The control regions of mitochondrial DNA of two insects, Schistocerca gregaria and Chorthippus
parallelus, have been isolated and sequenced. Their sizes are 752 by and 1,512 bp, …

The evolutionary conservation and versatility of a new set of nuclear primers for the amplification
of the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer regions in insects and other invertebrates …

A Bayesian coalescent-based method has recently been proposed to delimit species using
multilocus genetic sequence data. Posterior probabilities of different species delimitation …

The development of microsatellite DNA markers for use with butterflies and moths is
extremely difficult for no apparent reason. New findings demonstrate that many lepidopteran …

Multiple copies of mitochondrial-like DNA were found in the brown mountain grasshopper,
Podisma pedestris (Orthoptera: Acrididae), paralogous to COI and ND5 regions. The same …