Morphological differences between larvae of the Ciona intestinalis species complex: Hints for a valid taxonomic definition of distinct species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Pennati, Roberta ^a   Ficetola, Gentile Francesco ^b,c   Brunetti, Riccardo ^d   Caicci, Federico ^e   Gasparini, Fabio ^e   Griggio, Francesca ^a   Sato, Atsuko ^f   Stach, Thomas ^g   Kaul Strehlow, Sabrina ^h   Gissi, Carmela ^a   Manni, Lucia ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CIONA INTESTINALIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARVA; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAIL; TAXONOMY; TRUNK; ANATOMIC MODEL; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ASCIDIA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CIONA INTESTINALIS; LARVA; MODELS, ANATOMIC; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 84933587051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122879     Document Type: Article

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