Understanding what determines range expansion or extinction is crucial to predict the
success of biological invaders. We tackled this long-standing question from an unparalleled …

Mussels form extensive beds in rocky intertidal habitats on temperate seashores worldwide.
They are foundation species because their beds host many invertebrates. Mussels and their …

Renicolid digeneans parasitize aquatic birds. Their intramolluscan stages develop in marine
and brackish-water gastropods, while metacercariae develop in molluscs and fishes. The …

The intertidal gastropod Littorina saxatilis is a model system to study speciation and local
adaptation. The repeated occurrence of distinct ecotypes showing different levels of genetic …

Here we focused on the co-occurrence pattern on regional and local scales, and on the
niche differences of two species of congeneric beetles (Ochthebius quadricollis and O …

Aim Comparing genetic structure in species with shared spatial ranges and ecological
niches can help identify how dissimilar aspects of biology can shape differences in …

Parallel evolution of phenotypic divergence offers compelling evidence supporting the
influence of natural selection on the divergence process. However, the existence of …

Understanding the factors that have shaped the current distributions and diversity of species
is a central and longstanding aim of evolutionary biology. The recent inclusion of genomic …

Introduction Post-glacial climate variation is known to have influenced the distribution of
marine species in the North Atlantic. In particular, the Atlantic side of the Arctic has …

How the near-shore marine benthic communities survived Quaternary glaciations in
Antarctica is a major question for Southern Ocean biogeographers. Several hypotheses that …