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Cryptic diversity in the Western Balkan endemic copepod: Four species in one?
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Jul 2016
Previšić Ana, Gelemanović Andrea, Urbanič Gorazd, Ternjej Ivančica
Abstract excerpt
We use mitochondrial (mtCOI) and nuclear (nH3) sequence data to investigate differentiation of Eudiaptomus hadzici, a freshwater copepod endemic to the Western Balkans. E. hadzici has a disjunct distribution and morphological differences were observed at regional scale. In the current study 6 out of 7 known populations are included. We applied several species delimiting approaches, distance based methods (K2P...
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