DNA Barcoding Reveals Cryptic Diversity in Lumbricus terrestris L., 1758 (Clitellata): Resurrection of L. herculeus (Savigny, 1826)

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 5; no. 12; p. e15629
• Main Authors: James, Samuel W., Porco, David, Decaëns, Thibaud, Richard, Benoit, Rougerie, Rodolphe, Erséus, Christer
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 29.12.2010; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Animals; Base Sequence; Biodiversity; Biological Systematics; Biologisk systematik; Biology; Body size; Canada; Computational Biology - methods; Congeners; cryptic species; Cytochrome; Cytochrome oxidase I; Denmark; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; DNA - genetics; DNA barcoding; DNA Barcoding, Taxonomic - methods; DNA sequencing; earthworm taxonomy; Ecology; Eisenia andrei; Eisenia fetida; Ekologi; Electron Transport Complex IV - metabolism; Gene sequencing; Heterogeneity; Lumbricidae; Lumbricus; Lumbricus herculeus; Lumbricus terrestris; Megascolecidae; Models, Genetic; Molecular Sequence Data; Morphology; Norway; Nucleotide sequence; Oligochaeta; Oligochaeta - genetics; Oxidase; Phylogenetics; Science education; Sequence Analysis, DNA - methods; Species; Studies; Worms; Zoology; Denmark; Canada; Norway; Sweden; Kansas; France; United States > US; North America

The widely studied and invasive earthworm, Lumbricus terrestris L., 1758 has been the subject of nomenclatural debate for many years. However these disputes were not based on suspicions of heterogeneity, but rather on the descriptions and nomenclatural acts associated with the species name. Large nu...