Molecular barcoding and phylogeography of sexual and asexual freshwater planarians of the genus Dugesia in the Western Mediterranean (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Dugesiidae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 835-845

  Lázaro, Eva M ^a   Sluys, Ronald ^b   Pala, Maria ^c   Stocchino, Giacinta Angela ^c   Baguñà, Jaume ^a   Riutort, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

COI; Fissiparity; ITS 1; Molecular taxonomy; Phylogeny; Turbellaria

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TURBELLARIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANARIANS; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

DUGESIA (TURBELLARIAN); DUGESIIDAE; PLATYHELMINTHES; TRICLADIDA; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 67649986030     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.04.022     Document Type: Article

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