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Genetic diversity and demographic instability in Riftia pachyptila tubeworms from eastern Pacific hydrothermal vents.
BMC evolutionary biology - 13 Apr 2011
Coykendall D Katharine, Johnson Shannon B, Karl Stephen A, Lutz Richard A, Vrijenhoek Robert C
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BACKGROUND: Deep-sea hydrothermal vent animals occupy patchy and ephemeral habitats supported by chemosynthetic primary production. Volcanic and tectonic activities controlling the turnover of these habitats contribute to demographic instability that erodes genetic variation within and among colonies of these animals. We examined DNA sequences from one mitochondrial and three nuclear gene loci to assess genetic...
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