@article{ebb5d95cca9f449ea8c6bf9d02942bbb,
title = "Circular or oval? Molecular phylogenetic analysis revealed variations in middorsal spots on middle segments of Chloeia flava (Pallas, 1766)",
abstract = "Chloeia flava (Pallas, 1766) is characterized by having circular middorsal spots on middle segments, and researchers have questioned whether circular- and oval-shaped middorsal spots on middle segments are intraspecific morphological variations of C. flava. Molecular evidences were not included in previous studies to resolve this problem. In this study, we conducted both morphological and molecular genetic analyses based on specimens of C. flava collected from Fujian, China. We have noted that the Chloeia specimens after fixation had a wide variation in middorsal spots on their middle segments from circular to narrow oval, and phylogenetic analyses had clarified that all these specimens checked in this study were clustered in the single clade of Chloeia flava.",
keywords = "Chaetae, Fireworms, Phylogeny, Pigmentation, Polychaeta",
author = "Zhi Wang and Deyuan Yang and Meihong Zhao and Qiu, {Jian Wen} and Salazar-Vallejo, {Sergio I.} and Caihuan Ke",
note = "This work was supported by the Youth Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (42306107), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2021M691866), Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Programs at Xiamen University (202110384077, 2023X1260, and 2023X1263), the MEL Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholarship, the Lantau Conservation Fund of Hong Kong (RE-2020–22), the opening foundation of the Observation and Research Station of Bohai Strait Eco-Corridor, MNR (BH202205), and the Investigation on Marine Environment and Ecological Resources of Fujian Fishing Port Construction Project (2021). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Senckenberg Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Naturforschung 2025.",
year = "2025",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1007/s12526-025-01503-6",
language = "English",
volume = "55",
journal = "Marine Biodiversity",
issn = "1867-1616",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
number = "1",
}