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  <dc:contributor>Patrick L. Hudson</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Masanori Fujimoto</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Kevin M. Keeler</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Patricia M. Dieter</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Jeffrey L. Ram</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Adrian A. Vasquez</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2016</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;In the Laurentian Great Lakes, specimens of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Eurytemora&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; have been reported as&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Eurytemora affinis&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; since its invasion in the late 1950s. During an intensive collection of aquatic invertebrates for morphological and molecular identification in Western Lake Erie in 2012-2013, several specimens of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Eurytemora&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; were collected. Analysis of these specimens identified them as the recently described species &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Eurytemora carolleeae&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;Alekseev and Souissi 2011. This result led us to assess &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;E. carolleeae’s&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; identifying features, geographic distribution and historical presence in the Laurentian Great Lakes in view of its recent description in 2011. Cytochrome oxidase I (COI) DNA sequences of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Eurytemora&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; specimens were identified as closer (2 - 4% different) to recently described&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;E. carolleeae&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; than to most &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;E. affinis&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; sequences (14% different). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Eurytemora&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; from other areas of the Great Lakes and from North American rivers as far west as South Dakota (Missouri River) and east to Delaware (Christina River) also keyed to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;E. carolleeae&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;. Morphological analysis of archival specimens from 1962 and from all the Great Lakes was identified as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;E. carolleeae&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;. Additionally, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Eurytemora&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; drawings in previous publications were reassessed to determine if the species was &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;E. carolleeae&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; and are reported here. Additional morphological characters that may distinguish North American&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;E. carolleeae&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; from other taxa are also described. We conclude that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;E. carolleeae&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; is the correct name for the species of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Eurytemora&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; that has inhabited the Great Lakes since its invasion, as established by both morphological and COI sequence comparisons to reference keys and sequence databases in present and archival specimens.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1016/j.jglr.2016.04.001</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Elsevier</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Eurytemora carolleeae in the Laurentian Great Lakes revealed by phylogenetic and morphological analysis</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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