Molecular divergence between Iridaea cordata (Turner) Bory de Saint-Vincent from the Antarctic Peninsula and the Magellan Region

• Published in: Journal of Applied Phycology
• Main Authors: Ocaranza Barrera, Paula, González Wevar, Claudio, Guillemin, Marie-Laure, Rosenfeld, Sebastián, Mansilla, Andrés
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Netherlands 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Biogeography; Cryptic speciation; Rhodophyta; Southern Ocean; Vicariance; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Bory; Drake Passage; Saint-Vincent; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-018-1656-2; https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/171899

The distribution of the Southern Ocean (SO) biota is the result of major geological, oceanographic, and climate changes during the last 50 million years (Ma). Several groups of marine benthic organisms exhibit marked taxonomic similarities between the Antarctic Peninsula and southern South America,...