Linking DNA sequences to morphology: Cryptic diversity and population genetic structure in the marine nematode Thoracostoma trachygaster (Nematoda, Leptosomatidae)

Zoologica Scripta

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 276-289

  Derycke, Sofie ^a   De Ley, Paul ^b   Tandingan De Ley, Irma ^b   Holovachov, Oleksandr ^c   Rigaux, Annelien ^a   Moens, Tom ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c IVAN FRANKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LVIV   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTOSOMATIDAE (NEMATODES); NEMATODA; THORACOSTOMA TRACHYGASTER;

EID: 77953150857     PISSN: 03003256     EISSN: 14636409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2009.00420.x     Document Type: Article

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