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http://dx.doi.org/10.5635/ASED.2021.37.1.073

DNA Barcoding of a Colonial Ascidian, Botrylloides violaceus (Ascidiacea: Stolidobrachia: Styelidae), from South Korea  

Lee, Taekjun (Marine Biological Resource Institute, Sahmyook University)
Shin, Sook (Marine Biological Resource Institute, Sahmyook University)
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Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity / v.37, no.1, 2021 , pp. 26-30 More about this Journal
Abstract
Botrylloides violaceus is native to the Northwest Pacific, including Korea. This species has many color variations in alive condition and a variety of zooid compound forms, and therefore difficult to identification in the field survey. This is the first report of COI DNA barcodes of B. violaceus from Korea. The intra-specific pairwise distance between Korean and UK populations had ranged from 1.4% to 2.6%. The inter-specific variations between B. violaceus and other Botrylloides species were 21.0-36.8%. The new DNA barcodes for Korean B. violaceus may be helpful in the identification of colonial ascidians, which is a difficult task when based on morphological identification.
Keywords
DNA barcoding; COI; colonial ascidian; Styelidae; Botrylloides;
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