Dear all,
I am Shinri TOMIOKA, a Ph. D. student at Hokkaido University, Japan.
I have been engaged in descriptive taxonomy of the Japanese capitellids for the last three years, and my Ph. D. dissertation will be on a systematic study of family Capitellidae.
This family needs a serious revisional study, because the included genera were established based on a combination of characters. This characters are ontogenetically variable. Therefore, the genus-level taxonomy is not likely to reflect phylogenic relationships.
I started a molecular phylogenic analysis with fresh material that I have collected in Japanese water. However, it is impossible to include all the capitellid genera only Japanese materials. This family has a worldwide distribution, and the members of some genera appear only outside Japanes water.
I should be grateful if any of you in this list could supply capitellid specimens for DNA extraction.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Best regards,
Shinri
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Shinri TOMIOKA
Graduate School of Natural History Science
Hokkaido University
shinri.tomioka from mail.sci.hokudai.ac.jphttps://sites.google.com/site/capitellicosk/
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