Ancient globetrotters—connectivity and putative native ranges of two cosmopolitan biofouling amphipods

• Published in: PeerJ
• Main Authors: Jan Beermann, Allison K. Hall-Mullen, Charlotte Havermans, Joop WP Coolen, Richard PMA Crooijmans, Bert Dibbits, Christoph Held, Andrea Desiderato
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PeerJ Inc. 2020
• Subjects: Amphipoda; Biofouling; Biological invasion; Cosmopolitan distribution; Marine dispersal; Marine shipping; Medicine; R; Biology (General); QH301-705.5; Pacific; Jassa; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9613; https://doaj.org/article/587cd562936347fc908a18d1ae986237

The geographic distributions of some coastal marine species have appeared as cosmopolitan ever since they were first scientifically documented. In particular, for many benthic species that are associated with anthropogenic substrata, there is much speculation as to whether or not their broad distrib...