The scale of divergence: a phylogenetic appraisal of intercontinental allopatric speciation in a passively dispersed freshwater zooplankton genus

SJ Adamowicz, A Petrusek, JK Colbourne… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2009 - Elsevier
Molecular studies have enlightened our understanding of freshwater zooplankton
biogeography, yet questions remain regarding the scale and commonality of geographic …

Speciation in Daphnia

TA Chin, ME Cristescu - Molecular ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The microcrustacean Daphnia is arguably one of the most studied zooplankton species,
having a well understood ecology, life history, and a relatively well studied evolutionary …

The noncosmopolitanism paradigm of freshwater zooplankton: insights from the global phylogeography of the predatory cladoceran Polyphemus pediculus (Linnaeus …

S Xu, PDN Hebert, AA Kotov, ME Cristescu - Molecular ecology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
A major question in our understanding of eukaryotic biodiversity is whether small bodied
taxa have cosmopolitan distributions or consist of geographically localized cryptic taxa …

Transcontinental Phylogeography of the Daphnia pulex Species Complex

TJ Crease, AR Omilian, KS Costanzo, DJ Taylor - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Daphnia pulex is quickly becoming an attractive model species in the field of ecological
genomics due to the recent release of its complete genome sequence, a wide variety of new …

A fossil-calibrated phylogenomic analysis of Daphnia and the Daphniidae

L Cornetti, PD Fields, K Van Damme, D Ebert - … Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2019 - Elsevier
In the post-genomic era, much of phylogenetic analyses still relies on mitochondrial DNA,
either alone or in combination with few nuclear genes. Although this approach often makes it …

The use of molecular tools in invasion biology: an emphasis on freshwater ecosystems

S Blanchet - Fisheries Management and Ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The potential uses of molecular tools to address issues in invasion biology are reviewed,
including the early detection of novel and cryptic non‐native species, the identification of …

Species diversity and phylogeographical affinities of the Branchiopoda (Crustacea) of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada

NW Jeffery, M Elias-Gutierrez, SJ Adamowicz - PLoS One, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The region of Churchill, Manitoba, contains a wide variety of habitats representative of both
the boreal forest and arctic tundra and has been used as a model site for biodiversity studies …

Unexpected mitochondrial lineage diversity within the genus Alonella Sars, 1862 (Crustacea: Cladocera) across the Northern Hemisphere

AN Neretina, DP Karabanov, V Sacherova, AA Kotov - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Representatives of the genus Alonella Sars (Crustacea: Cladocera: Chydorinae) belong to
the smallest known water fleas. Although species of Alonella are widely distributed and often …

The genetic legacy of polyploid Bolivian Daphnia: the tropical Andes as a source for the North and South American D. pulicaria complex

J Mergeay, X Aguilera, S Declerck… - Molecular …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated genetic variation in asexual polyploid members of the water flea Daphnia
pulex complex from a set of 12 Bolivian high‐altitude lakes. We used nuclear microsatellite …

Lineage diversity and reproductive modes of the Daphnia pulex group in Chinese lakes and reservoirs

X Ma, A Petrusek, J Wolinska, W Hu, M Yin - Molecular Phylogenetics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent studies of the distribution and diversity of freshwater zooplankton have indicated that
the previously understudied Eastern Palearctic region is an important biogeographic …