The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

This page documents data for Curole & Kocher (2002), such as genera and species attributed to that publication (including known misspellings, misidentifications, and other unavailable names) as well as taxonomic opinions, if available. Taxonomic opinions refer to uses of genera and species as valid and invalid in that work.

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Publication information

Curole, J.P. & T.D. Kocher. 2002. Ancient sex-specific extension of the cytochrome c oxidase II gene in bivalves and the fidelity of doubly-uniparental inheritance. Molecular Biology and Evolution 19(8): 1323-1328.

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Cladogram Figures

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fig. 1-F
fig. 1a-M
fig. 1b-M

Taxonomic Opinions

Cladogram Figure 1-F

  +-------- Margaritifera_hembeli
--+                              
  |  +----- Lampsilis_teres      
  +--+                           
     |  +-- Quadrula_quadrula    
     +--+                        
        +-- Pustulosa_pustulosa  

Cladogram Figure 1a-M

     +-- Utterbackiana_implicata
  +--+                          
  |  +-- Lampsilis_teres        
--+                             
  |  +-- Quadrula_quadrula      
  +--+                          
     +-- Pustulosa_pustulosa    

Cladogram Figure 1b-M

  +-------- Lampsilis_teres        
--+                                
  |  +----- Utterbackiana_implicata
  +--+                             
     |  +-- Quadrula_quadrula      
     +--+                          
        +-- Pustulosa_pustulosa    

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