Haplotype diversity of the nematode Pristionchus pacificus on Réunion in the Indian Ocean suggests multiple independent invasions

• Published in: Biological journal of the Linnean Society Vol. 100; no. 1; pp. 170 - 179
• Main Authors: HERRMANN, MATTHIAS, KIENLE, SIMONE, ROCHAT, JACQUES, MAYER, WERNER E, SOMMER, RALF J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2010; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Wiley-Blackwell
• Subjects: Biological and medical sciences; Biological evolution; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Genetics of eukaryotes. Biological and molecular evolution; hermaphrodite; Invertebrates; island biogeography; Nemathelminthia. Plathelmintha; Nematoda; Oryctes; Pristionchus; Pristionchus pacificus; Reunion island; Indian Ocean; Indian Ocean Islands; ASW, South America; INW, Asia; ANE, Europe; ISW, Indian Ocean, Mascarene Is., Reunion; Coleoptera; Insecta; Biological evolution; Diversity; Biogeography; island biogeography; Hermaphrodite; Invasion; Marine environment; Arthropoda; Scarabaeidae; Hermaphroditism; Helmintha; Oryctes; Nemathelminthia; Invertebrata; Haplotype; Nematoda

Pristionchus pacificus has been established as a nematode model system in evolutionary developmental biology and evolutionary ecology. Field studies in North and South America, Asia, Africa and Europe indicated that nematodes of the genus Pristionchus live in association with scarab beetles. Here, w...