Genome sizes of cyclopoid copepods (Crustacea): Evidence of evolutionary constraint

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 625-635

  Rasch, Ellen M ^a   Wyngaard, Grace A ^b  

^a East Tennessee State University   (United States)

^b JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C value; Calanoid; Chromatin diminution; Cytophotometry; DNA Feulgen; Evolution; Freshwater; Marine

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; DNA; GENOME; INVERTEBRATE;

NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

CALANOIDA; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; CYCLOPOIDA;

EID: 33646866612     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00610.x     Document Type: Article

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