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Extreme convergence in stick insect evolution: phylogenetic placement of the Lord Howe Island tree lobster by Buckley, Thomas R, Attanayake, Dilini, Bradler, Sven

“…we constructed a phylogeny from approximately 2.4 kb of mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data from representatives of all major phasmatodean lineages. Our…”
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phylogenetic placement and biogeographical origins of the New Zealand stick insects (Phasmatodea) by BUCKLEY, THOMAS R, ATTANAYAKE, DILINI, NYLANDER, JOHAN A. A, BRADLER, SVEN

“…The Lanceocercata are a clade of stick insects (Phasmatodea) that have undergone an impressive evolutionary radiation in Australia, New Caledonia, the…”
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Phylogeography and ecological niche modelling of the New Zealand stick insect Clitarchus hookeri (White) support survival in multiple coastal refugia by Buckley, Thomas R, Marske, Katharine, Attanayake, Dilini

“…Increasing our understanding of the effects of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and determining the location of refugia requires studies on widely distributed…”
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Identifying glacial refugia in a geographic parthenogen using palaeoclimate modelling and phylogeography: the New Zealand stick insect Argosarchus horridus (White) by Buckley, Thomas R, Marske, Katharine A, Attanayake, Dilini

“…We have used phylogeographic analysis of mitochondrial DNA (COI and COII genes) and ecological niche modelling (ENM) to reconstruct the population history of…”
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Investigating hybridization in the parthenogenetic New Zealand stick insect Acanthoxyla (Phasmatodea) using single-copy nuclear loci by Buckley, Thomas R., Attanayake, Dilini, Park, Duckchul, Ravindran, Shanthinie, Jewell, Tony R., Normark, Benjamin B.

“…The New Zealand stick insect genus Acanthoxyla Uvarov is extremely unusual among higher taxa of animals in that all known species are obligate parthenogens. We…”
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