Phylogeography of the sponge Suberites diversicolor in Indonesia: insights into the evolution of marine lake populations.

ABSTRACT: The existence of multiple independently derived populations in landlocked marine lakes provides an opportunity for fundamental research into the role of isolation in population divergence and speciation in marine taxa. Marine lakes are landlocked water bodies that maintain a marine character through narrow submarine connections to the sea and could be regarded as the marine equivalents of terrestrial islands. The sponge Suberites diversicolor (Porifera: Demospongiae: Suberitidae) is typical of marine lake habitats in the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Four molecular markers (two mitochondrial and two nuclear) were employed to study genetic structure of populations within and between marine lakes in Indonesia and three coastal locations in Indonesia, Singapore and Australia. Within population

SUBMITTER: Becking LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3788070 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature