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Morphological Characterization of Sexual Artemia (Branchiopoda) from China

Morphological Characterization of Sexual Artemia (Branchiopoda) from China MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SEXUAL ARTEMIA (BRANCHIOPODA) FROM CHINA BY KEXIN ZHOU 1,2,3 / , MUQI XU 1,4 / and XIANGCHU YIN 2,5 / 1 / Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Zhongguancun Lu, Haidian, Beijing 100080, China 2 / College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China ABSTRACT A detailed morphological study was performed on adult males and females of seven sexual populations of the brine shrimp, Artemia from China. Five populations were collected from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, three of which were recorded and investigated for the Ž rst time. The measurements of 12 biometrical parameters for males and 13 parameters for females were taken from individuals of each population, raised under standardized culture conditions from nauplii to the adult stage. They were analysed through discriminant analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis, in order to establish relationships among the different populations, as well as to have a tool to assign new sets of data for unknown populations to one of the groups analysed here. The overall percentage of correctly classiŽ ed cases of females was 87.32%, a little higher than that of males, which was 84.79%. Our study showed that the Artemia from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau belong http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Crustaceana Brill

Morphological Characterization of Sexual Artemia (Branchiopoda) from China

Crustaceana , Volume 76 (11): 16 – Jan 1, 2003

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MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SEXUAL ARTEMIA (BRANCHIOPODA) FROM CHINA BY KEXIN ZHOU 1,2,3 / , MUQI XU 1,4 / and XIANGCHU YIN 2,5 / 1 / Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Zhongguancun Lu, Haidian, Beijing 100080, China 2 / College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China ABSTRACT A detailed morphological study was performed on adult males and females of seven sexual populations of the brine shrimp, Artemia from China. Five populations were collected from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, three of which were recorded and investigated for the Ž rst time. The measurements of 12 biometrical parameters for males and 13 parameters for females were taken from individuals of each population, raised under standardized culture conditions from nauplii to the adult stage. They were analysed through discriminant analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis, in order to establish relationships among the different populations, as well as to have a tool to assign new sets of data for unknown populations to one of the groups analysed here. The overall percentage of correctly classiŽ ed cases of females was 87.32%, a little higher than that of males, which was 84.79%. Our study showed that the Artemia from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau belong

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Published: Jan 1, 2003

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