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Decoupling of molecular and morphological evolution in deep lineages of a meiobenthic harpacticoid copepod.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jun 2001
Rocha-Olivares A, Fleeger J W, Foltz D W
Abstract excerpt
Molecular and biochemical genetic analyses have revealed that many marine invertebrate taxa, including some well-studied and presumably cosmopolitan species, are actually complexes of sibling species. When morphological differences are slight and estimated divergence times are old, data suggest either unusually high rates of sequence evolution or long-term morphological stasis. Here, five gene regions...
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