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Subterranean archipelago in the Australian arid zone: mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of amphipods from central Western Australia.
Molecular ecology - 1 Apr 2007
Cooper Steven J B, Bradbury John H, Saint Kathleen M, Leys Remko, Austin Andrew D, Humphreys William F
Abstract excerpt
In 1998, a unique subterranean ecosystem was discovered in numerous isolated calcrete (carbonate) aquifers in the arid Yilgarn region of Western Australia. Previous morphological and genetic analyses of a subterranean water beetle fauna suggest that calcrete aquifers are equivalent to closed island habitats that have been isolated for millions of years. We tested this hypothesis further by phylogeographic...
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