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 …

Local and regional founder effects in lake zooplankton persist after thousands of years despite high dispersal potential

M Ventura, A Petrusek, A Miró, E Hamrová… - Molecular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We reconstructed the genetic structure of a planktonic crustacean D aphnia longispina living
in high mountain lakes and ponds in the P yrenees to investigate whether it was shaped by …

[PDF][PDF] A revision of the subgenus Eurycercus (Eurycercus) Baird, 1843 emend. nov.(Cladocera: Eurycercidae) in the Holarctic with the description of a new species …

EI Bekker, AA Kotov, DJ Taylor - Zootaxa, 2012 - acsu.buffalo.edu
Frey (1975) subdivided the genus Eurycercus Baird, 1843 (Cladocera: Eurycercidae) into
three subgenera: E.(Eurycercus) s. str., E.(Bullatifrons) Frey, 1975 and E.(Teretifrons) Frey …

[HTML][HTML] Unexpected endemism in the Daphnia longispina complex (Crustacea: Cladocera) in Southern Siberia

EI Zuykova, NA Bochkarev, DJ Taylor, AA Kotov - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The biological significance of regional cladoceran morphotypes in the montane regions of
the central Palearctic remains poorly understood. In the Holarctic Daphnia longispina …

An approach to identify putative hybrids in the 'coalescent stochasticity zone', as exemplified in the African plant genus Streptocarpus (Gesneriaceae)

MJ de Villiers, MD Pirie, M Hughes, M Möller… - New …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The inference of phylogenetic relationships is often complicated by differing evolutionary
histories of independently‐inherited markers. The causes of the resulting gene tree …

A common multi-host parasite shows genetic structuring at the host species and population levels

CL Shaw, R Bilich, MA Duffy - Parasitology, 2024 - cambridge.org
Although individual parasite species commonly infect many populations across physical
space as well as multiple host species, the extent to which parasites traverse physical and …

Founder effects drive the genetic structure of passively dispersed aquatic invertebrates

J Montero-Pau, A Gómez, M Serra - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
Populations of passively dispersed organisms in continental aquatic habitats typically show
high levels of neutral genetic differentiation despite their high dispersal capabilities. Several …

A novel method for preventing surface film entrapment of water fleas and its application for toxicity testing with heavy metals

R Cui, JI Kwak, YJ An - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2017 - Springer
Some water fleas such as Daphnia galeata and Bosmina longirostris are difficult to culture
and use in ecotoxicity testing since they can easily become entrapped at the surface film …

Phylogeography Patterns and Population Genetics Polymorphism of Daphnia cristata Sars and D. longiremis Sars (Anomopoda: Daphniidae) in Northern Eurasia

EI Zuykova, LP Sleptzova, LV Andreeva… - Russian Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
The first data on the population genetic structure of the Daphnia cristata Sars, 1862 and D.
longiremis Sars, 1862 species (Anomopoda: Daphniidae) from the water bodies of Northern …

The Genealogical Sorting Index and species delimitations

DJ Winter, SA Trewick, JM Waters, HG Spencer - bioRxiv, 2016 - biorxiv.org
Abstract The Genealogical Sorting Index (gsi) has been widely used in species-delimitation
studies, where it is usually interpreted as a measure of the degree to which each of several …