The Taxonomy, Evolution, and Phylogeography of Marine Invertebrates

Dear Colleagues,

Speciation and formation processes of contemporary communities are among the most important fundamental problems of biology. During the last quarter of the century, the advent of molecular phylogenetic methods has generated a drastic increase in the number of studies devoted to the evolutionary history of taxa of various ranks, as well as their taxonomic diversity and distribution. Phylogenetic and phylogeographical approaches may provide a new insight into the speciation of marine taxa and the history of marine communities. The dispersion of animals and their isolation under the influence of global climatic and tectonic changes are directly related to the extinction of taxa and the formation of new ones, which means that they are as equally important as descriptive systematics, ecology, and functional morphology in evolutionary and faunistic research. For this Special Issue, we invite manuscripts that advance our current knowledge on the biodiversity, taxonomy, evolution, and phylogeny of marine invertebrates, either on their own or in any combination.

Dr. Irina Ekimova
Guest Editor

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