Out of Africa: The Slow Train to Australasia

• Published in: Systematic Biology
• Main Authors: Waters, Jonathan M., Roy, Michael S.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2004
• Subjects: Articles; Indian; New Zealand; Pacific; St. Helena; Amsterdam Island
• Online Access: http://sysbio.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/53/1/18; https://doi.org/10.1080/10635150490264671

We used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences to test biogeographic hypotheses for Patiriella exigua (Asterinidae), one of the world's most widespread coastal sea stars. This small intertidal species has an entirely benthic life history and yet occurs in southern temperate waters of the Atlantic,...