Without morphology, cryptic species stay in taxonomic crypsis following discovery

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 391-392

  Schlick Steiner, Birgit C ^a,b   Seifert, Bernhard ^c   Stauffer, Christian ^a   Christian, Erhard ^a   Crozier, Ross H ^b   Steiner, Florian M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SENCKENBERG MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY GÖRLITZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANT; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BIODIVERSITY; ZOOLOGY;

EID: 34447307658     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2007.05.004     Document Type: Letter

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