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: Dömel, Jana S., Macher, Till-Hendrik, Dietz, Lars, Duncan, Sabrina, Mayer, Christoph, Rozenberg, Andrey, Wolcott, Katherine, Leese, Florian, Melzer, Roland R.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central 2019
• Subjects: Research; Antarctic; Hoek; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6728986/; 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...