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Evolution of the Northern Rockweed, Fucus distichus, in a Regime of Glacial Cycling: Implications for Benthic Algal Phylogenetics.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Laughinghouse Haywood Dail, Müller Kirsten M, Adey Walter H, Lara Yannick, Young Robert, Johnson Gabriel
Abstract excerpt
Northern hemisphere rockweeds (Fucus) are thought to have evolved in the North Pacific and then spread to the North Atlantic following the opening of the Bering Strait. They have dispersed and widely speciated in the North Atlantic and its tributary seas. Fucus distichus is likely near the ancestral member of this genus, and studies have shown that there are several species/subspecies in this complex (i.e. F....
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