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Science 6 August 1976:
Vol. 193. no. 4252, pp. 508 - 510
DOI: 10.1126/science.193.4252.508
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Biogeography of Free-Living Soil Nematodes from the Perspective of Plate Tectonics

V. R. FERRIS 1, C. G. GOSECO 1, and J. M. FERRIS 1

1 Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907

In this first biogeographical synthesis based on the morphology and known distribution of a group of free-living soil nematodes, data indicate a pre-Jurassic origin followed by West Gondwanaland radiation for some genera and Laurasian radiation for others.

Submitted on April 22, 1976
Revised on June 16, 1976


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Biogeography.
D.R. Stoddart (1978)
Progress in Physical Geography 2, 514-528
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