Population dynamics of Aurelia aurita (Scyphozoa) from an isolated brackish lake, with particular reference to sexual reproduction
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Molecular evidence for cryptic species of Aurelia aurita (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa).
Morphological taxonomy suggests that marine faunas are species poor compared to terrestrial and freshwater faunas (1). This dichotomy has been attributed to the unique potential of marine plankters for distant dispersal across homogenous oceans with few barriers to gene flow (2). The relative scarcity of opportunities for allopatric divergence has resulted in depauperate marine faunas character...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Plankton Research
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0142-7873,1464-3774
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/18.6.987