Geographical distribution and evolutionary divergence times of Asian populations of the brine shrimp Artemia (Crustacea, Anostraca)

• Published in: Zoological journal of the Linnean Society Vol. 174; no. 3; pp. 447 - 458
• Main Authors: Eimanifar, Amin, Van Stappen, Gilbert, Wink, Michael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2015; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Anostraca; Artemia; Artemia sinica; Artemia tibetiana; Artemia urmiana; Asian Artemia; Brines; COI marker; Crustacea; Decapoda; Demography; evolutionary age; geographic structure; Geographical distribution; Haplotypes; Holocene; Miocene; mtDNA; Pleistocene; Pliocene; Population growth

The brine shrimp Artemia represents a widespread genus of microcrustaceans adapted to hypersaline environments. The species of this genus have been the subject of numerous phylogenetic studies, but many open questions remain, especially for Eurasian Artemia lineages. Artemia sinica Cai, 1989 and Art...