Ecological and evolutionary insights from species invasions.
- D. Sax, J. Stachowicz, W. Rice
- Environmental ScienceTrends in Ecology & Evolution
- 1 September 2007
The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity
- W. Appeltans, S. Ahyong, Mark John Costello
- Environmental ScienceCurrent Biology
- 4 December 2012
The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus
- M. Daly, M. Brugler, J. Stake
- Biology
- 21 December 2007
This work contrasts the Linnaean perspective on cnidarian diversity with the modern, phylogenetic perspective, and details diversity at the family level, providing phylogenetic context where possible.
Phylogeography in coastal marine animals: a solution from California?
- M. Dawson
- Environmental Science, Biology
- 1 June 2001
The nature of the discrepant phylogeographic and biogeographic patterns in coastal California is investigated to investigate the deep phylogenetic gaps in coastal marine taxa.
Molecular Evidence for Cryptic Species of Aurelia aurita (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa)
Nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequence data indicate speciation events as early as the late Cretaceous or early Tertiary, consistent with the formation of well-recognized biogeographic barriers to gene flow in the seas.
Global phylogeography of Cassiopea (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae): molecular evidence for cryptic species and multiple invasions of the Hawaiian Islands
- B. Holland, M. Dawson, G. Crow, D. K. Hofmann
- Environmental Science, Biology
- 24 June 2004
Molecular phylogenetic results support at least two independent introductions to the Hawaiian Islands, one from the Indo-Pacific, another from the western Atlantic/Red Sea, and two deeply divergent O’ahu haplotypes from morphologically similar, geographically separate invasive populations indicate long-term reproductive isolation of phylogenetically distinct source populations and cryptic species.
Coupled biophysical global ocean model and molecular genetic analyses identify multiple introductions of cryptogenic species.
- M. Dawson, A. Sen Gupta, M. England
- Environmental ScienceProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 23 August 2005
A global molecular phylogeny of a representative marine meroplanktonic taxon, the moon-jellyfish Aurelia, is compared with natural dispersion patterns predicted by a global biophysical ocean model, supporting existing evidence and identifying multiple introductions worldwide of this cryptogenic species.
Incipient speciation of Catostylus mosaicus (Scyphozoa, Rhizostomeae, Catostylidae), comparative phylogeography and biogeography in south‐east Australia
- M. Dawson
- Biology
- 1 March 2005
The goal of this study is to generate and test specific instances of the phylogeographic hypotheses, thereby better elucidating both local patterns of evolution and the conditions under which the generalities do or do not apply.
Macro-morphological variation among cryptic species of the moon jellyfish, Aurelia (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa)
- M. Dawson
- Environmental Science, Biology
- 6 May 2003
It is shown that Aurelia aurita is most likely endemic to the boreal Atlantic Ocean and northern European seas, Aurelia labiata is neither as morphologically diverse nor widespread as recently described, and the circumglobal Aurelia sp.
Cyanea capillata is not a cosmopolitan jellyfish: morphological and molecular evidence for C. annaskala and C. rosea (Scyphozoa:Semaeostomeae:Cyaneidae) in south-eastern Australia
- M. Dawson
- Biology, Environmental Science
- 20 October 2005
It is demonstrated that Cyanea in southern New South Wales and CyaneA in Tasmania and Victoria constitute two distinct morphological groups separated by >10% sequence difference in both cytochrome c oxidase subunit I and internal transcribed spacer 1, which are molecularly distinct from C. capillata collected in its North Sea type locality.
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