Phylogeography of the widespread marine invader Microcosmus squamiger (Ascidiacea) reveals high genetic diversity of introduced populations and non-independent colonizations

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 818-828

  Rius, Marc ^a   Pascual, Marta ^a   Turon, Xavier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Biological invasions; COI; Genetic diversity; Invasive species; Microcosmus squamiger; mtDNA; Population differentiation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLADISTICS; COLONIZATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; INVERTEBRATE; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; INDIAN OCEAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; MICROCOSMUS SQUAMIGER;

EID: 49549094455     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00485.x     Document Type: Article

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