Survey of leafminers and their parasitoids to find endosymbionts for improvement of biological control

CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice

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Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Sequence Analysis +14

The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees.

Naruya Saitou, M Nei · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 1987 · 60.5K citations · Full text

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A simple method for estimating evolutionary rates of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences

Journal of Molecular Evolution · 1980 · 29.8K citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +15

16S ribosomal DNA amplification for phylogenetic study

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Life Sciences, Microbiology, Molecular Biology +17

<i>Wolbachia</i>infection frequencies in insects: evidence of a global equilibrium?

John H. Werren, Donald M. Windsor · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2000 · 814 citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Entomology +10