Molecular Evaluation of the Fairy Shrimp Family Branchinectidae (Crustacea: Anostraca) Supports Peripatric Speciation and Complex Divergence Patterns.

ABSTRACT: The Branchinectidae is a diverse and widely distributed group of anostracans. The majority of work on the group has focused on the morphological delineation of taxa and biogeography. Here we present a molecular phylogeny for select members of the family to better understand the distribution of morphological variation among species, and test biogeographic models of speciation for the group. Although we conducted both molecular and morphological phylogenies for the Branchinectidae, the morphological analysis did not support our molecular phylogeny and it did not support previous species group concepts based on geography. Our molecular phylogenetic analysis suggests that the family may have originated in Eurasia and found support for numerous species groups. These phylogenetic groups assisted

SUBMITTER: Rogers DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7396922 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature