Data from: Cycles of trans‐Arctic dispersal and vicariance, and diversification of the amphi‐boreal marine fauna ...

The amphi‐boreal faunal element comprises closely related species and conspecific populations with vicarious distributions in the North Atlantic and North Pacific basins. It originated from an initial trans‐Arctic dispersal in the Pliocene after the first opening of the Bering Strait, and subsequent...

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Main Authors: Laakkonen, Hanna, Väinölä, Risto, Strelkov, Petr, Hardman, Michael
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: Dryad 2020
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.zw3r22868
https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.zw3r22868
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Summary:The amphi‐boreal faunal element comprises closely related species and conspecific populations with vicarious distributions in the North Atlantic and North Pacific basins. It originated from an initial trans‐Arctic dispersal in the Pliocene after the first opening of the Bering Strait, and subsequent vicariance through the Pleistocene when the passage through the Arctic was severed by glaciations and low sea levels. Opportunities for further dispersal have risen at times however, and molecular data now expose more complex patterns of inter‐oceanic affinities and dispersal histories. For a general view on the trans‐Arctic dynamics and of the roles of potential dispersal‐vicariance cycles in generating systematic diversity we produced new phylogeographic data sets for amphi‐boreal taxa in 21 genera of invertebrates and vertebrates, and combined them with similar published data sets of mitochondrial coding gene variation, adding up to 89 comparisons involving molluscs, crustaceans, echinoderms, polychaetes, ... : Mega project files with geographical groupings Mitochondrial nucleotide sequence data in Mega format, with groupings used in the study to calculate genetic distances between geographical entities. ...