Cryptic speciation of hormogastrid earthworms revealed by mitochondrial and nuclear data

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 507-512

  Novo, Marta ^a   Almodóvar, Ana ^a   Fernández, Rosa ^a   Trigo, Dolores ^a   Díaz Cosín, Darío J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cryptic species; Earthworms; Morphological stasis; Species delimitation

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SOIL; SPAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; OLIGOCHAETA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SPAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

HORMOGASTRIDAE;

EID: 77953133798     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.04.010     Document Type: Article

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