Geographic origin and timing of colonization of the Pacific Coast of North America by the rocky shore gastropod Littorina sitkana

• Published in: PeerJ
• Main Authors: Marko, Peter B., Zaslavskaya, Nadezhda I.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: PeerJ Inc. 2019
• Subjects: Biogeography; Kamchatka Peninsula; Pacific; Kamchatka
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6836758/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31720112; https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7987

The demographic history of a species can have a lasting impact on its contemporary population genetic structure. Northeastern Pacific (NEP) populations of the rocky shore gastropod Littorina sitkana have very little mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence diversity and show no significant population stru...