Divergence between Antarctic and South American marine invertebrates: what molecular biology tells us about Scotia Arc geodynamics and the intensification of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

• Published in: Global and Planetary Change
• Main Authors: Poulin, Elie, González Wevar, Claudio, Díaz Lorca, Angie, Gérard, Karin, Hüne, Mathias
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2014
• Subjects: ACC onset and intensification; Central Scotia Sea; COI; Middle Miocene climatic transition; Molecular clock hypothesis (MCH); MtDNA divergence; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Nacella; Scotia Sea; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.07.017; https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/153950

Continental drift processes such as major gateway openings have been historically advocated to explain the distribution of marine benthic taxa in the Southern Ocean (SO). The separation between Antarctic Peninsula and the southern tip of South America together with the onset of the Antarctic Circump...