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Cryptic species in marine polychaete and their independent introduction from North America to Europe.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Feb 1998
Bastrop R, Jürss K, Sturmbauer C
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The vast body of ballast water carried across oceans by freight ships represents a major source for the introduction of foreign species into marine ecosystems. The worm Marenzelleria viridis, originally found only in North America, appeared in estuaries of the North Sea in 1979 and 6 years later...
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