Exploring Species Level Taxonomy and Species Delimitation Methods in the Facultatively Self-Fertilizing Land Snail Genus Rumina (Gastropoda: Pulmonata)

Vanya Prévot; Kurt Jordaens; Gontran Sonet; Thierry Backeljau

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060736

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Exploring Species Level Taxonomy and Species Delimitation Methods in the Facultatively Self-Fertilizing Land Snail Genus Rumina (Gastropoda: Pulmonata)

Vanya Prévot,

Affiliations Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium, Laboratoire d’Evolution Biologique et Ecologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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Kurt Jordaens,

Affiliations Evolutionary Ecology Group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Joint Experimental Molecular Unit (JEMU), Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium and Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
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Gontran Sonet,

Affiliation Joint Experimental Molecular Unit (JEMU), Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium and Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
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Thierry Backeljau

* E-mail: Thierry.Backeljau@naturalsciences.be

Affiliations Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium, Evolutionary Ecology Group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Joint Experimental Molecular Unit (JEMU), Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium and Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
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Exploring Species Level Taxonomy and Species Delimitation Methods in the Facultatively Self-Fertilizing Land Snail Genus Rumina (Gastropoda: Pulmonata)

Vanya Prévot,
Kurt Jordaens,
Gontran Sonet,
Thierry Backeljau

Published: April 5, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0060736

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Small formatting corrections

Posted by vprevot on 09 Apr 2013 at 10:38 GMT

Species names should be in italics in the material and methods under the "Specimen collection" section.

Species names are now with capitals in the subheadings within the Discussion, i.e. "Rumina Saharica", "Rumina Paivae" and "Rumina Decollata", it should be with small caps, i.e. “Rumina saharica”, “Rumina paivae” and “Rumina decollata”.

The running title for now is "Exploring Species Boundaries in Selfing Land Snail", better would be either "Exploring Species Boundaries in a Selfing Land Snail" or "Exploring Species Boundaries in Selfing Land Snails".

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Exploring Species Level Taxonomy and Species Delimitation Methods in the Facultatively Self-Fertilizing Land Snail Genus Rumina (Gastropoda: Pulmonata)

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