Combining morphological and genomic evidence to resolve species diversity and study speciation processes of the Pallenopsis patagonica (Pycnogonida) species complex

• Published in: Frontiers in Zoology
• Main Authors: Doemel, Jana S., Macher, Till-Hendrik, Dietz, Lars, Duncan, Sabrina, Mayer, Christoph, Rozenberg, Andrey, Wolcott, Katherine, Leese, Florian, Melzer, Roland R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2019
• Subjects: Department Biologie II; ddc:570; Antarctic; Hoek; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/83844/1/s12983-019-0316-y.pdf; https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/83844/; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-83844-2; https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-019-0316-y

Background: Pallenopsis patagonica (Hoek, 1881) is a morphologically and genetically variable sea spider species whose taxonomic classification is challenging. Currently, it is considered as a species complex including several genetic lineages, many of which have not been formally described as speci...