RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA (RAPD) AND INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION IN OERSTEDIA-DORSALIS (HOPLONEMERTEA, NEMERTEA)

Authors
SUNDBERG P ANDERSSON S
Citation
P. Sundberg et S. Andersson, RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA (RAPD) AND INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION IN OERSTEDIA-DORSALIS (HOPLONEMERTEA, NEMERTEA), Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 75(2), 1995, pp. 483-490
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Journal title
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom → ACNP
ISSN journal
00253154
Volume
75
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
483 - 490
Database
ISI
SICI code
0025-3154(1995)75:2<483:RAPD(A>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
Genetic differentiation between two externally distinct forms of Oerst edia dorsalis was assessed by random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD); one of these forms has been described as a separate species, Oerstedi a (Paroerstedia) nigrimaculata (Gibson, 1988). This study tested the h ypothesis that the two forms are part of the same, panmictic, populati on. We could not establish any genetic differences, consistent with ex ternal morphology, and we conclude that the two forms are conspecific. Hence we declare Oerstedia nigrimaculata as junior synonym of O. dors alis.