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SUBMITTER: Silva CF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5451021 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Silva Camila F CF Seixas Victor C VC Barroso Rômulo R Di Domenico Maikon M Amaral Antonia C Z ACZ Paiva Paulo C PC
PloS one 20170531 5
The sibling species of Capitella capitata are globally known for their tolerance to disturbed habitats and the C. capitata complex is often used as an ecological indicator. A recent re-description proposed that C. capitata, originally described in Greenland is restricted to the Artic and Subarctic regions. Given their ecological relevance, we conducted a morphological and molecular analyses based on mtDNA sequences to investigate the diversity and distribution of the C. capitata complex along th ...[more]