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

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Fraser, Ceridwen, 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
• 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; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069138; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/16501/4/Fraser%20et%20al%20Genetic%20affinities%20between.pdf.jpg; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/16501/7/01_Fraser_Genetic_affinities_between_2013.pdf.jpg

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...