What is it about?
Niphargid amphipods are very important living organism presenting hidden diversity in most freshwater underground systems. Due to great morpho-stasis in this group, their genetic diversity would help to resolve their taxonomic ambiguities and reveal clear phylogenetic relationships. This is a survey on relationships of studied taxa across Europe to Middle east.
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Why is it important?
This study shows relationships between European species and the ones in the Middle East. Also shows the evolution of these taxa across the geographical range of the Genus based on observed clades.
Perspectives
this is the work which has been in our survey program for about 15 years. the difficulties in finding such a habitat to collect this species led us to travel a lot in Iran and had benefit of beauty of nature in vicinity of localities and across the country. This study provided good source of information to protect such habitats from being used for source of drinking water in a country with scarcity of rainfall.
Professor Alireza Sari
University of Tehran
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This page is a summary of: Molecular phylogeny of the subterranean genusNiphargus(Crustacea: Amphipoda) in the Middle East: a comparison with European Niphargids, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, July 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12296.
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