Ancient globetrotters—connectivity and putative native ranges of two cosmopolitan biofouling amphipods

• Published in: PeerJ
• Main Authors: Beermann, Jan, Hall-Mullen, Allison K., Havermans, Charlotte, Coolen, Joop WP, Crooijmans, Richard PMA, Dibbits, Bert, Held, Christoph, Desiderato, Andrea
• Other Authors: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, NWO Domain Applied and Engineering Sciences, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PeerJ 2020
• Subjects: Jassa; Pacific; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9613; https://peerj.com/articles/9613.pdf; https://peerj.com/articles/9613.xml; https://peerj.com/articles/9613.html

The geographic distributions of some coastal marine species have appeared as cosmopolitan ever since they were first scientifically documented. In particular, for many benthic species that are associated with anthropogenic substrata, there is much speculation as to whether or not their broad distrib...