Biodiversity, molecular ecology and phylogeography of marine sponges: Patterns, implications and outlooks

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 377-385

  Wörheide, Gert ^a,b   Solé Cava, Antonio M ^b   Hooper, John N A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

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EID: 19944364880     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/45.2.377     Document Type: Conference Paper

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