http://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource.do?r=rachel_antarctic_isopods 7b579758-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a Antarctic Isopods Rachel Grant Anton Van de Putte Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility (ANTABIF) antonarctica@gmail.com http://data.biodiversity.aq 2013-08-07 English The phylogenetic relationships of 14 species of the Antarctic amphipod families Epimeriidae and Iphimediidae were investigated using 553 bp of the gene for the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) and 98 morphological characters. Both families are dominant members of the Antarctic benthic amphipod community. In contrast to previous studies, our molecular and morphological data suggest that the families Epimeriidae and Iphimediidae may not be sister taxa. Our study suggests that Iphimediidae are more closely related to Eusirus (Eusiridae) than to Epimeria (Epimeriidae). Phylogenetic analyses based on maximum parsimony (MP) and maximum likelihood (ML) indicate that the genera Iphimediella and Gnathiphimedia are not monophyletic. Freely available if cited Antarctica -180 180 90 -90 2004-01-01 2004-01-01 urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1131 order Isopoda Rachel Grant 2013-08-07T05:29:22.000+02:00 dataset Lörz and Held 2004 Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31 (2004) 4–15 Online dataset http://www.iobis.org/mapper/?dataset=1602 Metadata http://www.vliz.be/imis/imis.php?module=dataset&dasid=2387 http://192.168.0.54:8080/ipt-2.0.3/resource.do?id=rachel_antarctic_isopods/v1.xml