Differences in life-histories refute ecological equivalence of cryptic species and provide clues to the origin of bathyal Halomonhystera (Nematoda). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The discovery of morphologically very similar but genetically distinct species complicates a proper understanding of the link between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
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Diversity and environmental relations of cryptic, systemic Botrytis infections in symptomless hosts. [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016 Botrytis species are generally considered to be aggressive, necrotrophic plant pathogens. By contrast to this general perception, however, Botrytis species could frequently be isolated from the interior of multiple tissues in apparently healthy hosts of ...
Michael W. Shaw +13 more
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Cryptic species conservation: a review. [PDF]
Biol Rev Camb Philos SocABSTRACTCryptic species are groups of two or more taxa that were previously classified as single nominal species. Being almost morphologically indistinguishable, cryptic species have historically been hard to detect. Only through modern morphometric, genetic, and molecular analyses has the hidden biodiversity of cryptic species complexes been revealed.
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DNA barcoding uncovers cryptic diversity in 50% of deep-sea Antarctic polychaetes [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 The Antarctic marine environment is a diverse ecosystem currently experiencing some of the fastest rates of climatic change. The documentation and management of these changes requires accurate estimates of species diversity.
Madeleine J. Brasier +6 more
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A plant virus differentially alters DNA methylation in two cryptic species of a hemipteran vector [PDF]
npj VirusesEpigenetic patterns including DNA methylation are known to vary between distantly related species, but it is not clear how these patterns differ at an intraspecific level.
Michael A. Catto +6 more
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Cryptic Species in Ecotoxicology
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 2023 Abstract The advent of genetic methods has led to the discovery of an increasing number of species that previously could not be distinguished from each other on the basis of morphological characteristics. Even though there has been an exponential growth of publications on cryptic species, such species are rarely considered in ...
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Systematics and taxonomy are the backbone of all components of biology and ecology, yet cryptic species present a major challenge for accurate species identification.
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DNA barcoding, ecology and geography of the cryptic species of Aneura pinguis and their relationships with Aneura maxima and Aneura mirabilis (Metzgeriales, Marchantiophyta). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Aneura pinguis is a thalloid liverwort species with broad geographical distribution. It is composed of cryptic species, however, the number of cryptic species within A. pinguis is not known. Five cpDNA regions (matK, rbcL, rpoC1, trnH-psbA and trnL-trnF)
Alina Bączkiewicz +4 more
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Electronic identification keys for species with cryptic morphological characters: a feasibility study using some Thesium species [PDF]
PhytoKeys, 2021 The popularity of electronic identification keys for species identification has increased with the rapid technological advancements of the 21st century.
Natasha Lombard +2 more
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Cryptic species in putative ancient asexual darwinulids (Crustacea, Ostracoda). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Fully asexually reproducing taxa lack outcrossing. Hence, the classic Biological Species Concept cannot be applied.We used DNA sequences from the mitochondrial COI gene and the nuclear ITS2 region to check species boundaries according to the evolutionary
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