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Project

The perception of 'species' in marine taxa: a critical contribution to the 'barcode of life' project
Code
01J13207
Duration
01 January 2007 → 31 October 2009
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Geology
    • Animal biology
    • Aquatic sciences, challenges and pollution
Keywords
Mysida taxonomy functional ecology nematoda biodiversity population ecology DNA barcoding cryptic speciation
 
Project description
 

We assesses the validity of DNA-barcoding for the identification of problematic invertebrate taxa, and apply multimarker-based barcoding to (1) unravel cyrptic diversity, and (2) document population genetic structure within species complexes of parine Nematoda and Mysida. In addition, the functional implications of cryptic diversity are studied in microcosm experiments.