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

• Published in: PeerJ
• Main Authors: Beermann, Jan, Hall-Mullen, Allison K., Havermans, Charlotte, Coolen, Joop WP, Crooijmans, Richard PMA, Dibbits, Bert, Held, Christoph, Desiderato, Andrea
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: PeerJ Inc. 2020
• Subjects: Biogeography; Jassa; Pacific; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7394068/; https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9613

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...