Marine nematode taxonomy in the age of DNA: The present and future of molecular tools to assess their biodiversity

Nematology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 661-672

  Da Silva, Neyvan Renato Rodrigues ^a,b   Da Silva, Maria Cristina ^a   Genevois, Verônica Fonseca ^a   Esteves, André Morgado ^a   De Ley, Paul ^c   Decraemer, Wilfrida ^d,e   Rieger, Tania Tassinari ^a   Dos Santos Correia, Maria Tereza ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b Centro Federal de Educacao Tecnologica do Rio Grande do Norte   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

barcoding; marine nematodes; molecular markers; molecular taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATABASE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NEMATODE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

CHROMADOREA; ENOPLEA; NEMATODA;

EID: 77956911081     PISSN: 13885545     EISSN: 15685411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/138855410X500073     Document Type: Article

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