著者

Syozo OSAWA Zhi-Hui SU Masaaki NISHIKAWA Osamu TOMINAGA

出版者

The Japan Academy

雑誌

Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B (ISSN:03862208)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.92, no.9, pp.455-461, 2016-11-11 (Released:2016-11-11)

参考文献数

16

被引用文献数

1

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Phylogenetic analyses using mitochondrial DNA sequences of several kinds of beetles have shown that their evolution included a silent stage in which no morphological changes took place. We thus propose a new category of evolutionary process called “silent evolution”.