Núñez-Flores, Mónica http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9692-1909
Gomez-Uchida, Daniel http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5150-2030
López-González, Pablo J. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7348-6270
Funding for this research was provided by:
Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (2017-21170438)
Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (CTM2017-83920-P)
Instituto Antártico Chileno (DG_04_19)
Article History
Received: 11 December 2019
Revised: 22 February 2020
Accepted: 25 February 2020
First Online: 8 April 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All applicable international, national, and/or institutional guidelines for animal testing, animal care and use of animals were followed by the authors.
: All necessary permits for sampling and observational field studies have been obtained by the authors from the competent authorities and are mentioned in the acknowledgments, if applicable.
: Additional data, including primers used to amplify the regions of <i>Cox1</i>, <i>mtMutS</i> and <i>28S</i>, GenBank accession numbers of the primnoids specimens used in the molecular analysis and additional phylogenetic results are in the Supplementary Files.
: M.N.F., P.L.G. and D.G.U. conceived and designed the study. M.N.F. performed scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and conducted morphological examinations and phylogenetic analysis. M.N.F. wrote the first draft of the manuscript that was improved in subsequent revisions by P.L.G and D.G.U. All authors gave final approval for publication.