P. Karanth

Deep history of an ancient subterranean crustacean: origins of the Bathynellacea (Syncarida)

Abstract Plate-tectonic-mediated vicariance is often invoked to explain global disjunct distributions. However, since the advent of molecular tools, particularly molecular dating, it has become apparent that in many of the taxa, dispersal post-continental break-up better explains their current distribution. Nevertheles...