A new species of river dolphin from Brazil or: How little do we know our biodiversity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hrbek, Tomas ^a   Da Silva, Vera Maria Ferreira ^b   Dutra, Nicole ^a   Gravena, Waleska ^a   Martin, Anthony R ^c   Farias, Izeni Pires ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; CYTOCHROME B; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; DOLPHIN; INIA ARAGUAIAENSIS; INIA BOLIVIENSIS; INIA GEOFFRENSIS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEOTROPICS; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RIVER BASIN; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVER;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DOLPHINS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84899846078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083623     Document Type: Article

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