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Worldwide genotyping in the planktonic foraminifer Globoconella inflata: implications for life history and paleoceanography.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Morard Raphaël, Quillévéré Frédéric, Douady Christophe J, de Vargas Colomban, de Garidel-Thoron Thibault, Escarguel Gilles
Abstract excerpt
The planktonic foraminiferal morpho-species Globoconella inflata is widely used as a stratigraphic and paleoceanographic index. While G. inflata was until now regarded as a single species, we show that it rather constitutes a complex of two pseudo-cryptic species. Our study is based on SSU and ITS rDNA sequence analyses and genotyping of 497 individuals collected at 49 oceanic stations covering the worldwide...
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