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+[[!meta title="The first definitive record of the giant larvacean, Bathochordaeus charon, since its original description in 1900 and a range extension to the northeast Pacific Ocean"]]
+[[!tag Oikopleura]]
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+R. E. Sherlock, K. R. Walz and B. H. Robison
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+Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:79 doi:10.1186/s41200-016-0075-9
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+The first definitive record of the giant larvacean, Bathochordaeus charon, since its original description in 1900 and a range extension to the northeast Pacific Ocean
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+[[!doi 10.1186/s41200-016-0075-9 desc="“In over two decades of exploring the mesopelagic waters of Monterey Bay, CA, remarkably few Bathochor- daeus charon (n = 15) were observed, while thousands of B. stygius have been encountered.”"]]
comparisons between strains of different oceans than within the Bergen gene
pool. We ignore whether and how Oikopleura dioica is subdivided into multiple
species” ([[Denoeud et al., 2010|biblio/21097902]]).
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+ - Giant Oikopleurid species, such as exist in deeper waters. _Bathochordaeus charon_'s 18S
+ RNA is 97% identical to the one of _O. dioica_ ([[Sherlock and coll, 2016|biblio/10.1186_s41200-016-0075-9]]).
Genome
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