Phylogeography and Population Genetics in Crustacea

Christoph Held, PhD, is a senior research scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany.Stefan Koenemann, PhD, is Interim Professor for Molecular Biology at the University of Siegen, Germany.Christoph D. Schubart, PhD, is an assistant professor of Evolution, Behavior, and Genetics at the University of Regensburg, Germany.

• ANALYSES OF POPULATION GENETICS: GUIDELINES AND DEVELOPMENTS: Analyzing intraspecific genetic variation: a practical guide using mitochondrial DNA and microsatellites. Detecting and measuring genetic differentiation. Rethinking the mechanisms that shape marine decapod population structure. Causes of chaos: spatial and temporal genetic heterogeneity in the intertidal anomuran crab Petrolisthes cinctipes. POPULATION GENETICS AND PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF MARINE CRUSTACEANS: Comparative phylogeography of Indo-West Pacific intertidal barnacles. Evolution and conservation of marine biodiversity in the Coral Triangle: insights from stomatopod Crustacea. Comparative phylogeography of three achelate lobster species from Macaronesia (northeast Atlantic). Genetic variation and differentiation of Fenneropenaeus merguiensis in the Thai Peninsula. Population genetics in the rocky shore crab Pachygrapsus marmoratus from the western Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic: complementary results from mtDNA and microsatellites at different geographic scales. POPULATION GENETICS AND PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF LIMNIC CRUSTACEANS: The history of the Daphnia pulex complex: asexuality, hybridization, and polyploidy. Phylogeographic patterns in Artemia: a model organism for hypersaline crustaceans. Intraspecific geographic differentiation and patterns of endemism in freshwater shrimp species flocks in ancient lakes of Sulawesi. Molecular and conservation biogeography of freshwater caridean shrimps in north-western Australia. Comparing phylogeographic patterns across the Patagonian Andes in two freshwater crabs of the genus Aegla (Decapoda: Aeglidae). Molecular diversity of river versus lake freshwater anomurans in southern Chile (Decapoda: Aeglidae) and morphometric differentiation between species and sexes. Population structure of two crayfish with diverse physiological requirements. Shallow phylogeogra

"The book is generally of a very high standard in terms of layout and presentation. ... all the authors are to be commended for communicating technically, conceptually and statistically complex subject matter clearly and simply. The treatment by Bird et al. of the most mathematically complex subject matter (the comparison of various differentiation and fixation metrics) deserves highlighting. ... Overall, this book is a valuable reference tool for researchers working on those taxa included or, perhaps, on other taxa in the geographical areas represented. The first section, in particular, would be of interest to all conducting such research in marine environments and the first two (technical) chapters should be required reading for all students concerned with population genetic or phylogeographic research. Most importantly, this book should make these fields more accessible to a wide range of carcinologists." -Gavin Gouws, Scientist, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB), Grahamstown, South Africa, Marine Biology Research, Vol. 9 No. 4, 2013