Wooden Stepping Stones: Diversity and Biogeography of Deep-Sea Wood Boring Xylophagaidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in the North-East Atlantic Ocean, With the Description of a New Genus

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Romano, Chiara, Nunes-Jorge, Amandine, Le Bris, Nadine, Rouse, G. W., Martin, Daniel, Borowski, Christian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media 2020
• Subjects: Deep sea; Phylogeography; Genetic connectivity; Wood falls; Mediterranean; Stepping Stones; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/223525

Este artículo contiene 21 páginas, 4 tablas, 6 figuras. Wood boring bivalves of the family Xylophagaidae inhabit sunken wood on the deepsea floor where they play a key role in the degradation of this organic matter in the ocean. The patchiness of wood-fall habitats is impeding targeted sampling and...