Cryptic species in tropic sands - interactive 3d anatomy, molecular phylogeny and evolution of meiofaunal pseudunelidae (gastropoda, acochlidia)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Neusser, Timea P ^a,b   Jörger, Katharina M ^a,b   Schrödl, Michael ^a,b  

^a ZOOLOGISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG MÜNCHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; RNA 16S; RNA 18S; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EXOCRINE GLAND; GASTROPOD; GENE STRUCTURE; HABITAT USE; KIDNEY; MEIOFAUNA; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDUNELIDAE; PSEUDUNELIDAE MARTELI; PSEUDUNELIDAE VIATORIS; SAND; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TROPICS; ANIMAL; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PACIFIC ISLANDS; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ACOCHLIDIIDAE; ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GASTROPODA; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SILICON DIOXIDE; TROPICAL CLIMATE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 80052322063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023313     Document Type: Article

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