Table 1 Site of collection, year of collection, sample size, source and abbreviation for each population. Full size table Figure 1 Map of the sampling sites of population samples analysed in this study. Samples from Bellinghausen Sea and Weddell Sea were used only for the analysis of mitochondr...
described in the costal shelf [16,17], whereas recent work in the deep sea has documented, by means of molecular tools, a spectacular and previously-unsuspected diversity [18]. Based mainly on studies of benthos, hypotheses have been formulated to explain Southern Ocean faunal distribution and ...