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Rapid evolutionary radiation of marine zooplankton in peripheral environments.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 28 Jun 2005
Dawson Michael N, Hamner William M
Abstract excerpt
Populations of jellyfish, Mastigias sp., landlocked in tropical marine lakes during the Holocene, show extreme genetic isolation (0.74 < or = phiST < or = 1.00), founder effects (genetic diversity: 0.000 < or = pi < or = 0.001), rapid morphological evolution, and behavioral adaptation. These resu...
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