DNA barcoding unmasks overlooked diversity improving knowledge on the composition and origins of the Churchill algal flora

BMC Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Saunders, Gary W ^a   McDevit, Daniel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Barcoding biotas; DNA barcoding; Floristic survey; Macroalgae; Phaeophyceae; Rhodophyta; Thermogeographic model; Trans Arctic exchange; Ulvophyceae

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOTA; DNA; FLORA; GLACIER RETREAT; MACROALGA; MORPHOLOGY;

ARCTIC; CANADA; CHURCHILL; MANITOBA;

ALGAE; PHAEOPHYCEAE; RHODOPHYTA; ULVOPHYCEAE;

ALGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BARCODING; GENETICS; SEAWEED;

BIODIVERSITY; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, ALGAL; MANITOBA; SEAWEED;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874934486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-13-9     Document Type: Article

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