The necessity of DNA taxonomy to reveal cryptic diversity and spatial distribution of meiofauna, with a focus on nemertea

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Leasi, Francesca ^a   Norenburg, Jon L ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CENTRAL AMERICA; CEPHALOTHRIX; CYTOCHROME OXIDASE SUBUNIT I GENE; DNA BARCODING; DNA TAXONOMY; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MEIOFAUNA; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; NEMERTEA; NONHUMAN; OTOTYPHLONEMERTES; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; TETRASTEMMA; ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; PANAMA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENETIC VARIATION; PANAMA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84905638687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104385     Document Type: Article

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