Amauris
Andrew V. Z. BrowerThis tree diagram shows the relationships between several groups of organisms.
The root of the current tree connects the organisms featured in this tree to their containing group and the rest of the Tree of Life. The basal branching point in the tree represents the ancestor of the other groups in the tree. This ancestor diversified over time into several descendent subgroups, which are represented as internal nodes and terminal taxa to the right.
You can click on the root to travel down the Tree of Life all the way to the root of all Life, and you can click on the names of descendent subgroups to travel up the Tree of Life all the way to individual species.
For more information on ToL tree formatting, please see Interpreting the Tree or Classification. To learn more about phylogenetic trees, please visit our Phylogenetic Biology pages.
close boxThe cladogram is based on morphological and pheromonal chemistry characters, as represented in Appendix 2 of Vane-Wright et al. 1992.
References
Ackery PR, and Vane-Wright RI. 1984. Milkweed butterflies. British Museum (Natural History), London.
Vane-Wright RI, Schulz S, and Boppr? M. 1992. The cladistics of Amauris butterflies: congruence, consensus and total evidence. Cladistics 8: 125-138.
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- First online 04 October 2006
- Content changed 04 October 2006
Citing this page:
Brower, Andrew V. Z. 2006. Amauris http://tolweb.org/Amauris/70711/2006.10.04 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
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