Analyzing drivers of speciation in the Southern Ocean using the sea spider species complex Colossendeis megalonyx as a test case

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Dömel, Jana S., Dietz, Lars, Macher, Till-Hendrik, Rozenberg, Andrey, Mayer, Christoph, Spaak, Johanna M., Melzer, Roland R., Leese, Florian
• Other Authors: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Stifterverband
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
• Subjects: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Hoek; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Biology
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00300-020-02636-z; http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00300-020-02636-z.pdf; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00300-020-02636-z/fulltext.html

Abstract Colossendeis megalonyx Hoek, 1881 has the broadest distribution of all sea spiders in the Southern Ocean. Previous studies have detected several evolutionarily young lineages within this taxon and interpreted them as a result of allopatric speciation in a few shelf refuges during glacial ma...