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Genetic structure of the grey side-gilled sea slug (Pleurobranchaea maculata) in coastal waters of New Zealand.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2018
Yıldırım Yeşerin, Anderson Marti J, Hansson Bengt, Patel Selina, Millar Craig D, Rainey Paul B
Abstract excerpt
Pleurobranchaea maculata is a rarely studied species of the Heterobranchia found throughout the south and western Pacific-and recently recorded in Argentina-whose population genetic structure is unknown. Interest in the species was sparked in New Zealand following a series of dog deaths caused by ingestions of slugs containing high levels of the neurotoxin tetrodotoxin. Here we describe the genetic structure and...
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