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Morphological and molecular diversification of Asian endemic Difflugia tuberspinifera (Amoebozoa, Arcellinida): a case of fast morphological evolution in protists?
Protist - 1 Feb 2015
Gomaa Fatma, Yang Jun, Mitchell Edward A D, Zhang Wen-Jing, Yu Zheng, Todorov Milcho, Lara Enrique
Abstract excerpt
Planktonic arcellinid testate amoebae exhibit a broad-range of morphological variability but it is currently unclear to what extent this variability represents phenotypic plasticity or if it is genetically determined. We investigated the morphology and phylogenetic relationships of three endemic east-asian Difflugia taxa 1) the vase-shaped D. mulanensis, 2) and a spinose and a spineless morphotypes of D....
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