DNA barcode reference library of the fish larvae and eggs of the South China Sea: taxonomic effectiveness and geographic structure

Abstract Fish early-stages constitute useful indicators of the states of marine ecosystems, as well as important fishery resources. Given the spectacular phenotypic changes during ontogeny, and the paucity of diagnostic morphological characters at the species level, the identification of fish early-...

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Main Authors: Changping Jiang, Fengming Liu, Jiao Qin, Nicolas Hubert, Bin Kang, Liangliang Huang, Yunrong Yan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2024-10-01
Series:BMC Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-024-02316-0