Cryptic species complex

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In biology, a cryptic species complex is a group of species that satisfy the scientific definition of species — that is, they are reproductively isolated from each other — but which are anatomically indistinguishable. The individual species within the complex can only be separated using methods from molecular genetics such as DNA barcoding.

External links

• Shellee Morehead, Jon Seger, Don Feener and Brian Brown, [A cryptic species complex in the ant parasitoid Apocephalus paraponerae (Diptera: Phoridae)]

 

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