Article
Speciation and phylogeography in the cosmopolitan marine moon jelly, Aurelia sp.
BMC evolutionary biology - 1 Jan 2002
Schroth Werner, Jarms Gerhard, Streit Bruno, Schierwater Bernd
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The cosmopolitan moon jelly Aurelia is characterized by high degrees of morphological and ecological plasticity, and subsequently by an unclear taxonomic status. The latter has been revised repeatedly over the last century, dividing the genus Aurelia in as many as 12 or as little as two species. We used molecular data and phenotypic traits to unravel speciation processes and phylogeographic patterns...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Nucleus
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- DNA, Ribosomal Spacer
- Ecology
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Variation
- Geography
- Haplotypes
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype