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Determining gene flow and the influence of selection across the equatorial barrier of the East Pacific Rise in the tube-dwelling polychaete Alvinella pompejana.
BMC evolutionary biology - 22 Jul 2010
Plouviez Sophie, Le Guen Dominique, Lecompte Odile, Lallier François H, Jollivet Didier
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Comparative phylogeography recently performed on the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (mtCOI) gene from seven deep-sea vent species suggested that the East Pacific Rise fauna has undergone a vicariant event with the emergence of a north/south physical barrier at the Equator 1-2 Mya. Within this specialised fauna, the tube-dwelling polychaete Alvinella pompejana showed reciprocal monophyly at mtCOI...
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