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Population subdivision of hydrothermal vent polychaete Alvinella pompejana across equatorial and Easter Microplate boundaries.
BMC evolutionary biology - 28 Oct 2016
Jang Sook-Jin, Park Eunji, Lee Won-Kyung, Johnson Shannon B, Vrijenhoek Robert C, Won Yong-Jin
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BACKGROUND: The Equator and Easter Microplate regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean exhibit geomorphological and hydrological features that create barriers to dispersal for a number of animals associated with deep-sea hydrothermal vent habitats. This study examined effects of these boundaries on geographical subdivision of the vent polychaete Alvinella pompejana. DNA sequences from one mitochondrial and eleven...
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