Phylogeography of North Atlantic intertidal tardigrades: Refugia, cryptic speciation and the history of the Mid-Atlantic Islands

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1613-1624

  Faurby, Søren ^a,b   Jørgensen, Aslak ^c   Kristensen, Reinhardt M ^c   Funch, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Atlantic ocean; COI; Cryptic species; Echiniscoides; Geographical variation; Greenland; Heterotardigrada; Post glacial recolonization; Secondary contact; Stepping stones

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; COASTAL ZONE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MICROORGANISM; MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; POSTGLACIAL; RECOLONIZATION; REFUGIUM; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); FAROE ISLANDS;

ECHINISCOIDES; ECHINISCOIDES HOEPNERI; ECHINISCOIDES SIGISMUNDI; HETEROTARDIGRADA; TARDIGRADA;

EID: 79960252274     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02533.x     Document Type: Article

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