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Unrecognized Antarctic biodiversity: a case study of the genus Odontaster (Odontasteridae; Asteroidea).
Integrative and comparative biology - 1 Dec 2010
Janosik Alexis M, Halanych Kenneth M
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Antarctica has a complex and multifaceted geologic and oceanographic history that has influenced and shaped patterns of marine invertebrate diversity. This evolutionary history consists of major events on a wide range of time scales such as the formation of the Antarctic Polar Front (25-41 million years ago) to repeated glacial cycles during the past million years. These factors variably influenced genetic...
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