Connectivity across the Caribbean Sea: DNA Barcoding and Morphology Unite an Enigmatic Fish Larva from the Florida Straits with a New Species of Sea Bass from Deep Reefs off Curaçao

Carole C. Baldwin; G. David Johnson

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0097661

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Connectivity across the Caribbean Sea: DNA Barcoding and Morphology Unite an Enigmatic Fish Larva from the Florida Straits with a New Species of Sea Bass from Deep Reefs off Curaçao

Carole C. Baldwin ,

* E-mail: baldwinc@si.edu

Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C., United States of America
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G. David Johnson

Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C., United States of America
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Connectivity across the Caribbean Sea: DNA Barcoding and Morphology Unite an Enigmatic Fish Larva from the Florida Straits with a New Species of Sea Bass from Deep Reefs off Curaçao

Carole C. Baldwin,
G. David Johnson

Published: May 13, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0097661

About the Authors

Carole C. Baldwin

* E-mail: baldwinc@si.edu

Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C., United States of America

G. David Johnson

Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C., United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CCB GDJ. Performed the experiments: CCB GDJ. Analyzed the data: CCB GDJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CCB GDJ. Wrote the paper: CCB GDJ.

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