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Minor correction to outgroup sources in ML analysis Fig. 2

Posted by rugmanjones on 22 Oct 2013 at 23:33 GMT

The two outgroup taxa in the ML analysis, labeled "RED637 Rhynchophorus cruentatus (Mexico)" (towards the top of the ML tree in Fig. 2) and "RED627 Rhynchophorus palmarum (Florida)" (towards the bottom of the tree), are in fact mislabeled. Unfortunately, the Mexico and Florida suffixes got mixed up. They should read "RED637 Rhynchophorus cruentatus (Florida)" and "RED627 Rhynchophorus palmarum (Mexico)". To avoid confusion, it should be noted that R. palmarum has never been recorded from Florida, and to our knowledge, R. cruentatus has never been recorded from Mexico.

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