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Phylogenetic analysis of southern hemisphere flat oysters based on partial mitochondrial 16S rDNA gene sequences.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Dec 1998
Jozefowicz C J, Foighil D O
Abstract excerpt
Oysters are among the most familiar, best studied, and morphologically variable of all marine invertebrate taxa. However, our knowledge of oyster phylogeny and systematics is rudimentary, especially for the subfamily Ostreinae (flat oysters). It is unclear, for instance, whether the predominant flat oysters occurring between latitudes 35 and 50 degrees S constitute a single circumglobal species, or multiple,...
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