Long distance dispersal of zooplankton endemic to isolated mountaintops - an example of an ecological process operating on an evolutionary time scale

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Vanschoenwinkel, Bram ^a   Mergeay, Joachim ^a,b   Pinceel, Tom ^a   Waterkeyn, Aline ^a   Vandewaerde, Hanne ^a   Seaman, Maitland ^c   Brendonck, Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRANCHIPODOPSIS DRAKENSBERGENSIS; BRANCHIPODOPSIS WOLFI; COI GENE; DEMOGRAPHY; GENE; GENE FLOW; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOLOGICAL TIME; HAPLOTYPE; MIGRATION; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION DISPERSAL; SHRIMP; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; ZOOPLANKTON; ANIMAL; ANOSTRACA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANOSTRACA; BRANCHIPODOPSIS; BRANCHIPODOPSIS DRAKENSBERGENSIS; BRANCHIPODOPSIS WOLFI; CRUSTACEA;

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMALS; ANOSTRACA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOLOGY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 80755176779     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026730     Document Type: Article

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