Morphological and molecular data reveal the presence of the invasive Artemia franciscana in Margherita di Savoia salterns (Italy)

International Review of Hydrobiology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 539-554

  Mura, Graziella ^a   Kappas, Ilias ^b   Baxevanis, Athanasios D ^b   Moscatello, Salvatore ^c   D'Amico, Quirico ^a   Lopez, German M ^d   Hontoria, Francisco ^d   Amat, Francisco ^d   Abatzopoulos, Theodore J ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^d CSIC Instituto de Acuicultura de Torre de la Sal IATS   (Spain)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Discriminant analysis; Invasive species; Mediterranean basin; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMARKERS; MORPHOLOGY; RNA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOMARKER; CRUSTACEAN; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INVASIBILITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; PARTHENOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SALT PAN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FOGGIA; ITALY; MARGHERITA DI SAVOIA; PUGLIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ARTEMIA; ARTEMIA FRANCISCANA;

EID: 33846097786     PISSN: 14342944     EISSN: 15222632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iroh.200610904     Document Type: Article

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