The phylogeographic architecture of the fucoid seaweed Ascophyllum nodosum: An intertidal 'marine tree' and survivor of more than one glacial-interglacial cycle

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 842-856

  Olsen, Jeanine L ^a   Zechman, Frederick W ^b   Hoarau, Galice ^a,c   Coyer, James A ^a   Stam, Wytze T ^a   Valero, Myriam ^d   Åberg, Per ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORD UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^d STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE ROSCOFF   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ascophyllum nodosum; Coalescence; Last Glacial Maximum; Long distance dispersal; Microsatellites; MtDNA; Ne; Phylogeography; Recolonization

Indexed keywords

BROWN ALGA; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COALESCENCE; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RECOLONIZATION; REFUGE; ROCKY SHORE; SEAWEED; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL; VULNERABILITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

ASCOPHYLLUM; ASCOPHYLLUM NODOSUM;

EID: 77953098197     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02262.x     Document Type: Article

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