Morphological and genetic analyses of xeniid soft coral diversity (Octocorallia; Alcyonacea)

Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 135-150

  Stemmer, Kristina ^a   Burghardt, Ingo ^d   Mayer, Christoph ^a,b   Reinicke, Götz B ^c   Wägele, Heike ^b   Tollrian, Ralph ^a   Leese, Florian ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^c Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MARINE RESEARCH ZMT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Molecular marker; ND6 ND3; Phylogeny; SRP54; Systematics; Xeniidae

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SOFT CORAL; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ALCYONACEA; ALCYONARIA; ANTHOZOA; HETEROXENIA; OVABUNDA; XENIA (CNIDARIA); XENIIDAE;

EID: 84878635463     PISSN: 14396092     EISSN: 16181077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13127-012-0119-x     Document Type: Article

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