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Glacial history of the North Atlantic marine snail, Littorina saxatilis, inferred from distribution of mitochondrial DNA lineages.
PloS one - 11 Mar 2011
Panova Marina, Blakeslee April M H, Miller A Whitman, Mäkinen Tuuli, Ruiz Gregory M, Johannesson Kerstin, André Carl
Abstract excerpt
The North Atlantic intertidal gastropod, Littorina saxatilis (Olivi, 1792), exhibits extreme morphological variation between and within geographic regions and has become a model for studies of local adaptation; yet a comprehensive analysis of the species' phylogeography is lacking. Here, we examine phylogeographic patterns of the species' populations in the North Atlantic and one remote Mediterranean population...
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