Phylogeny of the lamprey genus Lethenteron Creaser and Hubbs 1922 and closely related genera using the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene and nuclear gene introns

The phylogeny of lampreys is controversial, because they possess few taxon-distinctive morphological characters. This is especially true of the relationships among the genus Lethenteron and the closely related genera Eudontomyzon and Lampetra. Thus, the first objective of this thesis was to use DNA...

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Main Author: Li, Youyang
Other Authors: Docker, Margaret (Biological Sciences)
Published: 2014
Subjects:
DNA
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/23657