Integrative species delimitation in photosynthetic sea slugs reveals twenty candidate species in three nominal taxa studied for drug discovery, plastid symbiosis or biological control

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1101-1119

  Krug, Patrick J ^a   Vendetti, Jann E ^a   Rodriguez, Albert K ^a   Retana, Jennifer N ^a   Hirano, Yayoi M ^b   Trowbridge, Cynthia D ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Barcoding; Elysia; Kahalalide; Plakobranchus; Sacoglossa; Species delimitation

Indexed keywords

CAULERPA; CHLOROPHYTA; ELYSIA ORNATA; INVERTEBRATA; OPISTHOBRANCHIA; PLAKOBRANCHUS; PLAKOBRANCHUS OCELLATUS; SACOGLOSSA; VERTEBRATA;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BARCODING; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLAST; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BARCODING; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; ELYSIA; GASTROPOD; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; HAPLOTYPE; KAHALALIDE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLAKOBRANCHUS; SACOGLOSSA; SPECIES DELIMITATION; SYMBIOSIS;

BARCODING; ELYSIA; KAHALALIDE; PLAKOBRANCHUS; SACOGLOSSA; SPECIES DELIMITATION;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENTS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPHYTA; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DRUG DISCOVERY; GASTROPODA; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; HAPLOTYPES; MODELS, GENETIC; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84884589576     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.07.009     Document Type: Article

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