Cryptic animal species are homogeneously distributed among taxa and biogeographical regions

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Pfenninger, Markus ^a   Schwenk, Klaus ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTIC (ERA); METAZOON; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; GENETIC SPECIATION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34547645192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-121     Document Type: Article

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