Indication of ongoing amphipod speciation in Lake Baikal by genetic structures within endemic species.

Anton GurkovLorena Rivarola-DuarteDaria BedulinaIrene Fernández CasasHendrik MichaelPolina DrozdovaAnna NazarovaEkaterina GovorukhinaMaxim TimofeyevPeter F StadlerTill Luckenbach

Published in: BMC evolutionary biology (2019)

Our finding of separation of subgroups of Baikal endemic amphipods to different degrees points to a species-specific ability of dispersal across areas with adverse conditions and to potential geographical dispersal barriers in Lake Baikal.

Keyphrases

water quality
genome wide
high resolution
genetic diversity
liquid chromatography
dna methylation
risk assessment
mass spectrometry