Genetic legacy of tertiary climatic change: a case study of two freshwater loaches, Schistura fasciolata and Pseudogastromyzon myersi, in Hong Kong.

ABSTRACT: The high biodiversity and strong population structure of freshwater fauna has often been attributed to historical geological and climatic alterations. The impact of these historical changes on obligate freshwater species on a small geographical scale has not been well understood due to the lack of fine-scale comparative phylogeographic studies. Strong population structure has been reported in a goby and a caridean shrimp in Hong Kong, a small but highly developed city in South China, but the common drivers of population differentiation in freshwater fauna in this region remain unclear. This study examined the fine-scale phylogeographic patterns of two freshwater loaches, Schistura fasciolata and Pseudogastromyzon myersi in Hong Kong, using sequence data of mitochondrial control region and

SUBMITTER: Wong WY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5637367 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature