Ancient origin of the modern deep-sea fauna.

The origin and possible antiquity of the spectacularly diverse modern deep-sea fauna has been debated since the beginning of deep-sea research in the mid-nineteenth century. Recent hypotheses, based on biogeographic patterns and molecular clock estimates, support a latest Mesozoic or early Cenozoic...

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Main Authors: Ben Thuy, Andy S Gale, Andreas Kroh, Michal Kucera, Lea D Numberger-Thuy, Mike Reich, Sabine Stöhr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23071660/?tool=EBI