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Cryptic biodiversity in a changing world

Luciano B Beheregaray1 and Adalgisa Caccone2

Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Yale Institute of Biospheric Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8106, USA

Journal of Biology 2007, 6:9doi:10.1186/jbiol60

Published: 21 December 2007

Abstract

DNA studies are revealing the extent of hidden, or cryptic, biodiversity. Two new studies challenge paradigms about cryptic biodiversity and highlight the importance of adding a historical and biogeographic dimension to biodiversity research.


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