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Molecular Biology and Evolution, doi:10.1093/molbev/msi155
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Accepted April 19, 2005

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Biogeography of Luminous Marine Ostracod Driven Irreversibly by the Japan Current

Katsunori Ogoh 1 and Yoshihiro Ohmiya 1*

1 Research Institute for Cell Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ikeda, Osaka 563-8577, Japan

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Yoshihiro Ohmiya, E-mail: y-ohmiya{at}aist.go.jp


  Abstract

The biogeography of the luminous marine ostracod Vargula hilgendorfii, also called ‘Umihotaru’, shows this organism may have arrived relatively recently on the Japanese islands during the final glacier period approximately 10,000 years ago. Phylogenetic relationships also strongly indicate that the Japan Current drove the Umihotaru ostracod northward. It is evident that the Umihotaru ostracod spread rapidly to the major Japanese islands 3000 km north, whereas its spread was slow in the southwest of the Japanese Islands, covering a distance of 400 km. The meandering of the Japan Current, where it passes by the Tokara-gap at 28° latitude, may be a barrier to Umihotaru ostracod extension.

Keywords: biogeography; genetic divergence; Japan current; mitochondrial DNA; okinawa; ostracoda; refugia.
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