Phylogeography of Long-spined Sea Urchin Diadema setosum Across the Indo-Malay Archipelago.

ABSTRACT: Widely distributed, broadcast-spawning Diadema sea urchins have been used as model invertebrate species for studying the zoogeography of the tropical Indo-Pacific. So far, the Indo-Malay archipelago, a wide and geographically complex maritime region extending from the eastern Indian Ocean to the western Pacific Ocean, has been under-sampled. This study aims to fill this sampling gap and uncover the phylogeographic structure of the long-spined sea-urchin D. setosum in the central Indo-West pacific region. D. setosum samples (total N = 718) were collected in 13 sites throughout the Indo-Malay archipelago. We sequenced over 1157 bp of COI gene. The Phylogeographic structure was derived from pairwise Ф_ST estimates using multidimensional scaling and

SUBMITTER: Vimono IB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10522617 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature