Unexplored Character Diversity in Onychophora (Velvet Worms): A Comparative Study of Three Peripatid Species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Oliveira, Ivo de Sena ^a   Franke, Franziska Anni ^a   Hering, Lars ^a   Schaffer, Stefan ^a   Rowell, David M ^b   Weck Heimann, Andreas ^c   Monge Nájera, Julián ^d   Morera Brenes, Bernal ^d,e   Mayer, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 12S;

12S RRNA GENE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CHROMOSOME SIZE; COI GENE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; EOPERIPATUS; EPIPERIPATUS BIOLLEYI; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; KARYOTYPE; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONYCHOPHORA; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAPILLATUS HITOYENSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM; INVERTEBRATES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EOPERIPATUS; EPIPERIPATUS BIOLLEYI; ONYCHOPHORA; PERIPATIDAE;

EID: 84871289117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051220     Document Type: Article

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