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Planktonic foraminiferal amino acid profiles from deep-sea core samples spanning over 3 million years and three ocean basins show that intra-specific variability, although increasing with sample age, is less than inter-specific variability. Profiles are not specific at the level of morphotype for the species examined. Thus, these profiles are useful for grouping morphotypes at a given time slice into species, and for tracing these species through time.
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Stathoplos, L., Hare, P.E. (1989). Amino Acids in Planktonic Foraminifera: Are They Phylogenetically Useful?. In: Crick, R.E. (eds) Origin, Evolution, and Modern Aspects of Biomineralization in Plants and Animals. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6114-6_26
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