Data from: Out of Africa: the slow train to Australasia

• Main Authors: Waters, Jonathan M., Roy, Michael S., Crandall, Keith
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2018
• Subjects: Asterinid; rafting; vicariance; Marine; phylogeography; Life sciences; medicine and health care; Dispersal; envir; geo; Pacific; Indian; New Zealand; St. Helena; Amsterdam Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.h2h253r

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,...