Monitoring an alien invasion: DNA barcoding and the identification of lionfish and their prey on coral reefs of the Mexican Caribbean

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Valdez Moreno, Martha ^a   Quintal Lizama, Carolina ^a   Gómez Lozano, Ricardo ^b   García Rivas, María del Carmen ^c  

^a EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

^b Parque Nacional Arrecifes de Cozumel   (Mexico)

^c Parque Nacional Arrecifes de Xcalak Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOGON MOSAVI; ARTICLE; CARNIVORE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CORAL REEF; CORYPHOPTERUS THRIX; CORYPHOPTERUS TORTUGAE; CORYPHOPTERUS VENEZUELAE; DNA BARCODING; DNA DETERMINATION; FISH; GENBANK; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LYTHRYPNUS MINIMUS; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY; PTEROIS; PTEROIS VOLITANS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STARKSIA LANGI; STARKSIA OCELLATA; STOMACH; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CRUSTACEA; GENETICS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MEXICO; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREDATION;

ANTHOZOA; APOGON; APOGONIDAE; CORYPHOPTERUS; CORYPHOPTERUS THRIX; CORYPHOPTERUS TORTUGAE; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIA AMERICANA; GOBIIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; LYTHRYPNUS; PISCES; PTEROIS; PTEROIS VOLITANS; STARKSIA; STARKSIA OCELLATA;

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARIBBEAN REGION; CORAL REEFS; CRUSTACEA; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; FISHES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MEXICO; PHYLOGENY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STOMACH;

EID: 84861724007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036636     Document Type: Article

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