Testing the utility of DNA barcodes and a preliminary phylogenetic framework for Chinese freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from the middle and lower Yangtze River

• Rui-Wen Wu,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, People’s Republic of China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8936-6054

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• Yi-Tong Liu,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, People’s Republic of China

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• Sa Wang,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, People’s Republic of China

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• Xiong-Jun Liu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation School of Resources Environmental & Chemical Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, People’s Republic of China

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• David T. Zanatta,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biology Department, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States of America

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• Kevin J. Roe,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Xue-Lin Song,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, People’s Republic of China, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China

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• Chang-Ting An,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, People’s Republic of China, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China

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• Xiao-Ping Wu

  Roles Funding acquisition, Validation

  * E-mail: xpwu@ncu.edu.cn

  Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, People’s Republic of China, Center for Watershed Ecology, Institute of Life Science, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, People’s Republic of China

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