Genetic affinities between trans-oceanic populations of non-buoyant macroalgae in the high latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere

• Main Authors: Fraser, Ceridwen I., Zuccarello, Giuseppe C., Spencer, Hamish G., Salvatore, Laura C., Garcia, Gabriella R., Waters, Jonathan M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Public Library of Science 2015
• Subjects: phylogeography; seaweed; ecological and environmental processes; oceans and seas; phylogeny; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Shackleton; New Zealand; Marsden; Antarc*; Australian Antarctic Division
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/16501

Marine biologists and biogeographers have long been puzzled by apparently non-dispersive coastal taxa that nonetheless have extensive transoceanic distributions. We here carried out a broad-scale phylogeographic study to test whether two widespread Southern Hemisphere species of non-buoyant littoral...