Article
Global isolation by distance despite strong regional phylogeography in a small metazoan.
BMC evolutionary biology - 14 Nov 2007
Mills Scott, Lunt David H, Gómez Africa
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Small vagile eukaryotic organisms, which comprise a large proportion of the Earth's biodiversity, have traditionally been thought to lack the extent of population structuring and geographic speciation observed in larger taxa. Here we investigate the patterns of genetic diversity, amongst populations of the salt lake microscopic metazoan Brachionus plicatilis s. s. (sensu stricto) (Rotifera:...
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