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| Litvaitis, M.K.; Curini-Galletti, M.C.; Martens, P.M.; Kocher, T.D.. |
| The current classification system for the Monocelididae which is based on the character "presence or absence of an accessory prostatoid organ" divides the family into two subfamilies, namely the Minoninae and the Monocelididinae. However, other characters relating to the structure of the male copulatory bulb and to karyotypes do not support this division. Monocelidid male copulatory bulbs can be either of the simplex or the duplex-type, and if this character is mapped onto the current classification, then both subfamilies contain species with either type of copulatory bulb. We therefore decided to construct an independent phylogeny for the Monocelididae using nucleotide-sequence data of the gene coding for the 26/28S rDNA. Distance and parsimony-based... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Taxonomy; Monocelididae. |
| Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://www.vliz.be/nl/open-marien-archief?module=ref&refid=3015 |
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