Molecular Biology: Open Access

Jiangping Qiu

Publications

• Research Article
  Molecular Phylogeny of Pheretimoid Earthworms (Haplotaxina: Megascolecidae) Based on Mitochondrial DNA in Hainan Island, China
  Author(s): Qi Zhao, Daniel Cluzeau, Jibao Jiang, Eric J Petit, Charlène Briard, Jing Sun, Andreas Prinzing and Jiangping QiuQi Zhao, Daniel Cluzeau, Jibao Jiang, Eric J Petit, Charlène Briard, Jing Sun, Andreas Prinzing and Jiangping Qiu
  
  In the Chinese Hainan Island, Amynthas and Metaphire are two dominated pheretimoid earthworm species belonging to the family Megascolecidae. They differ from earthworms in the adjacent regions in their morphology and at the molecular level, which could have occurred due to the unique geography of Hainan Island. Hainan Island is made of two tectonic parts linked to South China and Indochina blocks, respectively. In addition, there is an apparent complicated link between Hainan Island and mainland China because of the different plate movements and sea level changes. In order to understand the evolution of pheretimoid earthworms in Hainan Island, we first investigated the earthworm biodiversity here. Bayesian phylogenetic tree was then constructed from 3511 base pairs from five mitochondrial genes: COI, COII, 16S, 12S, and ND1. Their divergent time was finally traced ba.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2168-9547.1000138

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