A circumpolar study of arctic biodiversity: Phylogeographic patterns in the Daphnia pulex complex

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Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 245-250

  Hobæk, Anders ^a   Weider, Lawrence J ^b,c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; BIODIVERSITY; CANADA; EUROPE; GENETIC DIVERSITY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

BIODIVERSITY; INSECT; TUNDRA;

ARCTIC;

ANIMALIA; CLADOCERA; CRUSTACEA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA PULEX; INSECTA; PULEX; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 0032992898     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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28. Acknowledgements: We thank our collaborators (see note 14), as well as the scientific bodies which supported our research with finances and logistics: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Norwegian Research Council, NATO, the Norwegian Polar Institute, and our host institutions the Max-Planck-Institut für Limnologie and the Norwegian Institute for Water Research.