Exploring Species Level Taxonomy and Species Delimitation Methods in the Facultatively Self-Fertilizing Land Snail Genus Rumina (Gastropoda: Pulmonata)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Prévot, Vanya ^a,b   Jordaens, Kurt ^a,c,d   Sonet, Gontran ^a,d   Backeljau, Thierry ^a,c,d  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; DNA 12S; DNA 16S; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COI GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTB GENE; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DNA BARCODING; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENE; GENEALOGICAL SORTING INDEX; GENEIOUS DNA BARCODING GAP ANALYSIS; GENERAL MIXED YULE COALESCENT MODEL; ITS1 GENE; ITS2 GENE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RUMINA; RUMINA DECOLLATA; RUMINA SAHARICA; SELF FERTILIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SNAIL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FERTILIZATION; GENETIC MARKERS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; SNAILS;

GASTROPODA; PULMONATA; RUMINA; RUMINA DECOLLATA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 84875944974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060736     Document Type: Article

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