Against all odds: a tale of marine range expansion with maintenance of extremely high genetic diversity.

ABSTRACT: The displacement of species from equatorial latitudes to temperate locations following the increase in sea surface temperatures is among the significant reported consequences of climate change. Shifts in the distributional ranges of species result in fish communities tropicalisation, i.e., high latitude colonisations by typically low latitude distribution species. These movements create new interactions between species and new trophic assemblages. The Senegal seabream, Diplodus bellottii, may be used as a model to understand the population genetics of these invasions. In the last decades, this species has undergone an outstanding range expansion from its African area of origin to the Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula, where now occurs abundantly. Mitochondrial and nuclear markers rev

SUBMITTER: Robalo JI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7391780 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature