TY  - JOUR
T1  - Morphological Differentiation of <I>Artemia</I> <I>urmiana</I> Gunther 1899 (<I>Crustacea: anostraca</I>) in Different Geographical Stations from the Urmia Lake, Iran
AU - , Alireza Asem AU - , Nasrullah Rstegar-Pouyani 
JO  - Research Journal of Biological Sciences
VL  - 3
IS  - 2
SP  - 222
EP  - 228
PY  - 2008
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1815-8846
DO  - rjbsci.2008.222.228
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=rjbsci.2008.222.228
KW  - Artemia urmiana
KW  -urmia lake
KW  -iran
KW  -morphological differentiation
KW  -principal components analysis
KW  -discriminant function analysis
AB  - The main objective of this study was to compare morphological differentiation between samples of <I>Artemia urmiana</I> in different stations from Urmia Lake. Male and female samples were analyzed separately because they are sexually dimorphic. Principal Components Analysis shows that male samples were almost clustered in two groups and these groups were separated. This finding was also confirmed by Discriminant Function Analysis. According to Principal Components Analysis the female samples were almost clustered in one group in all sites and it was not possible to make any separation among them. But Discriminant Function Analysis shows  2 separated groups. Therefore, suggested according to morphological characters, there are minimum two populations of <I>Artemia urmiana</I> in Urmia Lake.
ER  -