Cryptic diversity in coastal Australasia: A morphological and mitonuclear genetic analysis of habitat-forming sibling species

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 597-611

  Rius, Marc ^a,b   Teske, Peter R ^c  

^a CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adenine nucleotide transporter (ANT) intron; Ascidiacea; Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI); Phylogeny; Pyuridae

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880174279     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12036     Document Type: Article

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