First Evidence of Inbreeding, Relatedness and Chaotic Genetic Patchiness in the Holoplanktonic Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca (Scyphozoa, Cnidaria)

Giorgio Aglieri; Chiara Papetti; Lorenzo Zane; Giacomo Milisenda; Ferdinando Boero; Stefano Piraino

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0099647

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First Evidence of Inbreeding, Relatedness and Chaotic Genetic Patchiness in the Holoplanktonic Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca (Scyphozoa, Cnidaria)

Giorgio Aglieri ,

* E-mail: giorgio.aglieri@unisalento.it

Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche e Ambientali (DiSTeBA), Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy, Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare (CoNISMa), Roma, Italy
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Chiara Papetti,

Affiliations Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare (CoNISMa), Roma, Italy, Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
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Lorenzo Zane,

Affiliations Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare (CoNISMa), Roma, Italy, Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy
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Giacomo Milisenda,

Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche e Ambientali (DiSTeBA), Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy, Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare (CoNISMa), Roma, Italy
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Ferdinando Boero,

Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche e Ambientali (DiSTeBA), Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy, Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare (CoNISMa), Roma, Italy, Italian National Research Council - Institute for Marine Science (CNR-ISMAR), Genova, Italy
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Stefano Piraino

Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche e Ambientali (DiSTeBA), Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy, Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare (CoNISMa), Roma, Italy
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First Evidence of Inbreeding, Relatedness and Chaotic Genetic Patchiness in the Holoplanktonic Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca (Scyphozoa, Cnidaria)

Giorgio Aglieri,
Chiara Papetti,
Lorenzo Zane,
Giacomo Milisenda,
Ferdinando Boero,
Stefano Piraino

Published: June 30, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0099647

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