Gomez, A., J. Montero-Pau, D. H. Lunt, M. Serra, and S. Campillo (2007) Persistent genetic signatures of colonization in Brachionus manjavacas rotifers in the Iberian Peninsula. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 16:3228-3240. PDF Recent phylogeographical assessments have consistently shown that continental zooplankton display high levels of population subdivision, despite the...
Mills, S., D. H. Lunt, and A. Gomez (2007) Global isolation by distance despite strong regional phylogeography in a small metazoan. BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 7:225Â PDF doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-225 Background: Small vagile eukaryotic organisms, which comprise a large proportion of the Earth's biodiversity, have traditionally been thought to...
Berrieman, H. K., D. H. Lunt, and A. Gomez (2005) Behavioural reproductive isolation in a rotifer hybrid zone. HYDROBIOLOGIA 546:125-134. PDF A hybrid zone between two Brachionus plicatilis rotifer mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) lineages was recently described in the Iberian Peninsula between a pond (Santed 2) and a lake...
Gomez, A., M. Serra, G. R. Carvalho, and D. H. Lunt (2002) Speciation in ancient cryptic species complexes: Evidence from the molecular phylogeny of Brachionus plicatilis (Rotifera). EVOLUTION 56:1431-1444. PDF Continental lake-dwelling zooplanktonic organisms have long been considered cosmopolitan species with little geographic variation in spite of the...
Gomez, A., G. J. Adcock, D. H. Lunt, and G. R. Carvalho (2002) The interplay between colonization history and gene flow in passively dispersing zooplankton: microsatellite analysis of rotifer resting egg banks. JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 15:158-171. PDF Zooplanktonic organisms that disperse passively as diapausing eggs often...
Gomez, A., G. R. Carvalho, and D. H. Lunt (2000) Phylogeography and regional endemism of a passively dispersing zooplankter: mitochondrial DNA variation in rotifer resting egg banks. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 267:2189-2197. PDF We investigated the phylogeography of the salt water...
