Molecular phylogeography and population genetics of the brine shrimp Artemia (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Anostraca)
Journal: heiDOK (Heidelberg University)
Year: 2014

Brine shrimps Artemia (Crustacea, Anostraca) are a group of cosmopolitan extremophile microcrustaceans which are composed of a complex of six sexual species and numerous Eurasian Haplotype Complex (EHC) lineages. In the present study, we analyzed a partial sequence of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) and nuclear Internal transcribed spacer1 (ITS1), as well as genomic fingerprints by ISSR-PCR (inter-simple sequence repeats) for a large set of Artemia specimens (N ~ 600) from