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Phylogeography of the tropical planktonic foraminifera lineage globigerinella reveals isolation inconsistent with passive dispersal by ocean currents.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Weiner Agnes K M, Weinkauf Manuel F G, Kurasawa Atsushi, Darling Kate F, Kucera Michal, Grimm Guido W
Abstract excerpt
Morphologically defined species of marine plankton often harbor a considerable level of cryptic diversity. Since many morphospecies show cosmopolitan distribution, an understanding of biogeographic and evolutionary processes at the level of genetic diversity requires global sampling. We use a database of 387 single-specimen sequences of the SSU rDNA of the planktonic foraminifera Globigerinella as a model to...
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