Article
Identification, Discrimination, and Discovery of Species of Marine Planktonic Ostracods Using DNA Barcodes.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Nigro Lisa M, Angel Martin V, Blachowiak-Samolyk Katarzyna, Hopcroft Russell R, Bucklin Ann
Abstract excerpt
The Ostracoda (Crustacea; Class Ostracoda) is a diverse, frequently abundant, and ecologically important component of the marine zooplankton assemblage. There are more than 200 described species of marine planktonic ostracods, many of which (especially conspecific species) can be identified only by microscopic examination and dissection of fragile morphological characters. Given the complexity of species...
Topics
- Alaska
- Animals
- Atlantic Ocean
- Crustacea
- DNA Barcoding, Taxonomic
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Electron Transport Complex IV
- Genetic Variation
- Geography
- Greenland
- Haplotypes