Worldwide genotyping in the planktonic foraminifer Globoconella inflata: implications for life history and paleoceanography.

The planktonic foraminiferal morpho-species Globoconella inflata is widely used as a stratigraphic and paleoceanographic index. While G. inflata was until now regarded as a single species, we show that it rather constitutes a complex of two pseudo-cryptic species. Our study is based on SSU and ITS r...

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Main Authors: Raphaël Morard, Frédéric Quillévéré, Christophe J Douady, Colomban de Vargas, Thibault de Garidel-Thoron, Gilles Escarguel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3197684?pdf=render