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Molecular Systematics at the Species Boundary: Exploiting Conserved and Variable Regions of the Mitochondrial Genome of Animals via Direct Sequencing from Amplified DNA

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Molecular Techniques in Taxonomy

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((ASIH,volume 57))

Abstract

Traditional morphological characters have provided a wealth of systematic information. This information has been used to establish phylogenetic relationships which we refine today using a wide variety of techniques. A common result of traditional morphological analyses has been identification of groups of related taxa. Relationships within and/or among these groups were often uncertain (e.g. orders of flowering plants, Heywood 1978; species groups of kangaroo rats, Hall 1981). Very closely related species were particularly difficult to connect phylogenetically using morphological characters (e.g. Hawaiian Drosophila Hardy 1965; cichlid fishes, Fryer and Isles 1972). The addition of detailed morphometric analyses in the 1970’s and 1980’s increased our ability to identify taxa and discriminate among them but did not prove useful for deciphering relationships among taxa (Rohlf and Bookstein 1990).

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Simon, C. (1991). Molecular Systematics at the Species Boundary: Exploiting Conserved and Variable Regions of the Mitochondrial Genome of Animals via Direct Sequencing from Amplified DNA. In: Hewitt, G.M., Johnston, A.W.B., Young, J.P.W. (eds) Molecular Techniques in Taxonomy. NATO ASI Series, vol 57. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83962-7_4

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