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A Tale of Two Shrimps-Speciation and Demography of Two Sympatric Shrimp Species From Hydrothermal Vents.
Molecular ecology - 1 Nov 2025
Methou Pierre, Johnson Shannon B, Sherrin John, Shank Timothy M, Chen Chong, Tunnicliffe Verena
Abstract excerpt
Hydrothermal vents can serve as natural laboratories to study speciation processes due to their fragmented distribution, often with geographic barriers between habitats. Two sympatric species of Rimicaris shrimps occur at vents on the Izu-Bonin-Mariana volcanic arc: Rimicaris loihi also occurs near Hawai'i and R. cambonae is present on the Tonga Arc. These two species biogeographically co-occur and are...
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- Animals
- Hydrothermal Vents
- Sympatry
- Genetic Speciation
- Genetic Variation
- Decapoda
- Genetics, Population
