Reconciling molecular systematics and traditional taxonomy in a species-rich clade of sea stars (Leptasterias subgenus Hexasterias)

Marine Biology

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 475-483

  Flowers, J M ^a,b   Foltz, D W ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC DIVERGENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HYBRIDIZATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MORPHOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ECHINODERM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TAXONOMY;

ASTEROIDEA; LEPTASTERIAS; LEPTASTERIAS AEQUALIS; LEPTASTERIAS ALASKENSIS; LEPTASTERIAS ALEUTICA; LEPTASTERIAS ASTEIRA; LEPTASTERIAS CAMTSCHATICA; LEPTASTERIAS HEXACTIS; LEPTASTERIAS LEPTODOMA; LEPTASTERIAS PUSILLA;

EID: 0034814002     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002270100595     Document Type: Article

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