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Cryptic diversity of the 'cosmopolitan' harpacticoid copepod Nannopus palustris: genetic and morphological evidence.
Molecular ecology - 1 Nov 2012
Garlitska Lesya, Neretina Tatyana, Schepetov Dimitry, Mugue Nikolai, De Troch Marleen, Baguley Jeffrey G, Azovsky Andrey
Abstract excerpt
Nannopus palustris Brady, 1880 is a free-living widely distributed harpacticoid copepod, which has been formerly assumed to be a single, cosmopolitan but highly variable species. We compared several geographically distant N. palustris populations in terms of their morphology and genetics. Populations from the White Sea (WS), the North Sea (NS), the Black Sea (BS) and two sympatric morphs from South Carolina, USA...
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