Niche-restriction and regional endemism driving facultative coevolutionary symbiosis --- Ecology and phylogeography of two new snapping shrimps associated with a gobiid fish
Abstract:Using ecological, taxonomic and phylogenetic approaches, we here
describe geographically isolated symbiotic relationships between a
gobiid fish and two misdescribed alpheid snapping shrimps. This was
discovered in the southwestern province of the Persian Gulf, more
specifically, in the harsh hyperarid intertidal zone separating the
coastal ecosystem from the Middle East desert. Phylogenetic results
based on the 16S rRNA gene indicate the existence of two new cryptic
species within the Alpheus lobidens De Haan,… Show more
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