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 W.P., Crooijmans, Richard P.M.A., Dibbits, Bert, Held, Christoph, Desiderato, Andrea
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: amphipoda; biofouling; biological invasion; cosmopolitan distribution; marine dispersal; marine shipping; Pacific; Jassa; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/ancient-globetrottersconnectivity-and-putative-native-ranges-of-t; https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9613

The geographic distributions of some coastal marine species have appeared ascosmopolitan ever since they were first scientifically documented. In particular, for many benthic species that are associated with anthropogenic substrata, there is much mechanisms of dispersal. Here, we focused on two cong...