Using compensatory base change analysis of internal transcribed spacer 2 secondary structures to identify three new species in Paramacrobiotus (Tardigrada)

Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 287-296

  Schill, Ralph O ^a   Förster, Frank ^b   Dandekar, Thomas ^b   Wolf, Matthias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compensatory base change; Cryptic species; Eutardigrada; ITS2; Species identification; Tardigrada

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOPHYSICS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INVERTEBRATE; MATRIX; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SECONDARY STRUCTURE; TAXONOMY; TOPOLOGY;

EUTARDIGRADA; TARDIGRADA;

EID: 78649634393     PISSN: 14396092     EISSN: 16181077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13127-010-0025-z     Document Type: Article

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