Late Cenozoic Drainage History of the Southwestern Great Basin and Lower Colorado River Region: Geologic and Biotic Perspectives

Genetic zoogeography of the Hyalella azteca species complex in the Great Basin: Rapid rates of molecular diversification in desert springs
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Published:January 01, 2008
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Jonathan D.S. Witt, Doug L. Threloff, Paul D.N. Hebert, 2008. "Genetic zoogeography of the Hyalella azteca species complex in the Great Basin: Rapid rates of molecular diversification in desert springs", Late Cenozoic Drainage History of the Southwestern Great Basin and Lower Colorado River Region: Geologic and Biotic Perspectives, Marith C. Reheis, Robert Hershler, David M. Miller
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The North American Great Basin is a useful venue for the study of dispersal, vicariance, and rates of molecular evolution among aquatic organisms because its Pleistocene hydrogeographic history is relatively well known. This study examines regional molecular variation in the amphipod Hyalella azteca using mitochondrial (mt) gene sequence (deoxyribonucleic acid [DNA]) data. Populations within several endorheic drainages in the southern Great Basin were analyzed to determine if they represent a monophyletic assemblage with respect to populations from the pluvial Lake Bonneville drainage in the northern Great Basin. We also tested whether the patterns of molecular diversification among populations in the...
- Amphipoda
- Arthropoda
- Basin and Range Province
- biogeography
- California
- Cenozoic
- Crustacea
- deserts
- DNA
- drainage basins
- endemic taxa
- eolian features
- Great Basin
- habitat
- heterogeneity
- Invertebrata
- Inyo County California
- Lake Bonneville
- Malacostraca
- Mandibulata
- Nevada
- North America
- Owens Valley
- paleoecology
- paleoenvironment
- phylogeny
- Pleistocene
- Quaternary
- species diversity
- springs
- United States
- Utah
- White River valley
- Amargosa Valley
- Mojave Valley
- Hyalella azteca
- Hyalella