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Reconsidering Zoanthus spp. diversity: molecular evidence of conspecifity within four previously presumed species.
Zoological science - 1 May 2004
Reimer James Davis, Ono Shusuke, Fujiwara Yoshihiro, Takishita Kiyotaka, Tsukahara Junzo
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We have conducted the first phylogenetic study to our knowledge of Zoanthus in the northern hemisphere by sequencing and analysing the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI) gene. Various unidentified Zoanthus specimens and samples of what have been assumed to be four discrete species (Z. pacificus, Z. sansibaricus, Z. gnophodes, Z. erythrochloros) were collected from four field sites in Kagoshima...
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