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SUBMITTER: Huang X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4231159 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Huang Xiaona X Shi Xinlu X Kotov Alexey A AA Gu Fukang F
PloS one 20141113 11
Previously, a series of Simocephalus taxa (Cladocera: Daphniidae) from China were described. Most were proposed to be junior synonyms in the last revision of the genus. Using original material from China and data from GenBank, we investigate the biodiversity and phylogeny of Simocephalus using sequences of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) and the nuclear 18S genes. In both cases, neighbor-joining, maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference analyses led to highly congruent tree topologies. ...[more]