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Quaternary ice sheets and sea level regression drove divergence in a marine gastropod along Eastern and Western coasts of South America.
Scientific reports - 21 Jan 2020
Fernández Iriarte P J, González-Wevar C A, Segovia N I, Rosenfeld S, Hüne M, Fainburg L, Nuñez J D, Haye P A, Poulin E
Abstract excerpt
The southern coastline of South America is a remarkable area to evaluate how Quaternary glacial processes impacted the demography of the near-shore marine biota. Here we present new phylogeographic analyses in the pulmonate Siphonaria lessonii across its distribution, from northern Chile in the Pacific to Uruguay in the Atlantic. Contrary to our expectations, populations from the southwestern Atlantic, an area...
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