Global diversity of Ascidiacea

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Shenkar, Noa ^a   Swalla, Billie J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCIDIACEA; BIODIVERSITY; COLONIAL SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; LATITUDE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TROPICS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GUAM; PANAMA; UNITED STATES; UROCHORDATA;

APLOUSOBRANCHIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; DIDEMNIDAE; STYELIDAE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; GEOGRAPHY; GUAM; HAWAII; PANAMA; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 79959362622     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020657     Document Type: Review

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