Cryptic speciation in Brazilian epiperipatus (Onychophora: Peripatidae) reveals an underestimated diversity among the peripatid velvet worms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Oliveira, Ivo S ^a,b   Lacorte, Gustavo A ^b   Fonseca, Cleusa G ^b   Wieloch, Alfredo H ^b   Mayer, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE SUBUNIT I; RNA 12S; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE SUBUNIT I GENE; EPIPERIPATUS; EPIPERIPATUS ADENOCRYPTUS; EPIPERIPATUS DIADENOPROCTUS; EPIPERIPATUS PAUROGNOSTUS; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HAPLOTYPE; METAZOON; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONYCHOPHORA; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL ANATOMY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HELMINTH; HISTOLOGY; LIMB; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EPIPERIPATUS; ONYCHOPHORA; PERIPATIDAE;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; BRAZIL; EXTREMITIES; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HELMINTHS; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79958703080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019973     Document Type: Article

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