Comparing four mitochondrial genes in earthworms - Implications for identification, phylogenetics, and discovery of cryptic species

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 23-30

  Klarica, Jasmin ^a   Kloss Brandstätter, Anita ^b   Traugott, Michael ^a   Juen, Anita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

12S rDNA; 16S rDNA; Barcoding; COI; COII; Lumbricidae

Indexed keywords

12S RDNA; 16S RDNA; BARCODING; COI; COII; LUMBRICIDAE;

CODES (SYMBOLS); ECOLOGY; MITOCHONDRIA; RNA; SOILS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

GENES;

ADULT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYPSIS; EARTHWORM; FOOD WEB; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; JUVENILE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL FAUNA;

ALLOLOBOPHORA; APORRECTODEA; APORRECTODEA ROSEA; LUMBRICIDAE; LUMBRICUS RUBELLUS; OCTOLASION LACTEUM;

EID: 80755148795     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.09.018     Document Type: Article

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