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Amplicon Sequencing Of 42 Nuclear Loci Supports Directional Gene Flow Between South Pacific Populations Of A Hydrothermal Vent Limpet, Sophie Plouviez, Abigail Leavitt Labella, David W. Weisrock, F. A. Bastiaan Von Meijenfeldt, Bernard Ball, Joseph E. Neigel, Cindy L. Van Dover

Biology Faculty Publications

In the past few decades, population genetics and phylogeographic studies have improved our knowledge of connectivity and population demography in marine environments. Studies of deep‐sea hydrothermal vent populations have identified barriers to gene flow, hybrid zones, and demographic events, such as historical population expansions and contractions. These deep‐sea studies, however, used few loci, which limit the amount of information they provided for coalescent analysis and thus our ability to confidently test complex population dynamics scenarios.

In this study, we investigated population structure, demographic history, and gene flow directionality among four Western Pacific hydrothermal vent populations of the vent limpet Lepetodrilus …