Hidden Mediterranean diversity: Assessing species taxa by molecular phylogeny within the opilionid family Trogulidae (Arachnida, Opiliones)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-75

  Schönhofer, Axel L ^a   Martens, Jochen ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryptic diversity; Dicranolasma; Genetic species possibility level; Nemastomatidae; Opiliones; Systematics; Trogulidae; Trogulus

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA 28S;

ANIMAL; ARACHNID; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; ARACHNIDA; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ARACHNIDA; DICRANOLASMA; DICRANOLASMATIDAE; NEMASTOMATIDAE; OPILIONES; TROGULIDAE; TROGULUS;

EID: 70849113508     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.10.013     Document Type: Article

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