A pioneer survey and DNA barcoding of some commonly found gastropod molluscs on Robben Island

Abstract. Nineteen species of abundant gastropods were collected at Robben Island, including introduced dune snails and European brown garden snails. They were identified using morphology and DNA barcoding. It was expected that the species recorded would be similar to those from the Cape peninsula,...

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Autores principales: van der Bank, Herman, Greenfield, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2015
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4319098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25685029
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.481.8188
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description Abstract. Nineteen species of abundant gastropods were collected at Robben Island, including introduced dune snails and European brown garden snails. They were identified using morphology and DNA barcoding. It was expected that the species recorded would be similar to those from the Cape peninsula, South Africa, but we were surprised to find some exceptions: the very abundant invasive mussel species in South Africa, the South American bisexual mussel (Semimytilus algosus), and the beaded topshells (Oxystele impervia) were not found on Robben Island. Possible explanations are presented for these differences.
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spelling pubmed-43190982015-02-15 A pioneer survey and DNA barcoding of some commonly found gastropod molluscs on Robben Island van der Bank, Herman Greenfield, Richard Zookeys Short Communication Abstract. Nineteen species of abundant gastropods were collected at Robben Island, including introduced dune snails and European brown garden snails. They were identified using morphology and DNA barcoding. It was expected that the species recorded would be similar to those from the Cape peninsula, South Africa, but we were surprised to find some exceptions: the very abundant invasive mussel species in South Africa, the South American bisexual mussel (Semimytilus algosus), and the beaded topshells (Oxystele impervia) were not found on Robben Island. Possible explanations are presented for these differences. Pensoft Publishers 2015-02-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4319098/ /pubmed/25685029 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.481.8188 Text en Herman van der Bank, Richard Greenfield http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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A pioneer survey and DNA barcoding of some commonly found gastropod molluscs on Robben Island
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title_full A pioneer survey and DNA barcoding of some commonly found gastropod molluscs on Robben Island
title_fullStr A pioneer survey and DNA barcoding of some commonly found gastropod molluscs on Robben Island
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title_short A pioneer survey and DNA barcoding of some commonly found gastropod molluscs on Robben Island
title_sort pioneer survey and dna barcoding of some commonly found gastropod molluscs on robben island
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4319098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25685029
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.481.8188
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