How does speciation in marine plankton work?

Trends Microbiol

Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Electronic address:

Published: October 2023

Marine plankton species are ecologically important, yet, it remains unclear how they originate in the ocean, where few barriers are apparent to cause the most common type of speciation - divergence in isolation. Here I discuss the use of modern evolutionary genetic approaches to shed light on longstanding questions regarding their evolution.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2023.07.005DOI Listing

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