Underestimation of the Effect of Biologiocal Invasions in Phylogeographic Reconstructions as Seen in Daphnia magna (Crustacea, Cladocera)

A phylogeographic analysis of Daphnia magna Straus 1820 (Crustacea, Cladocera) was used to study the consequences of underestimating the effects of biological invasions, namely, the contamination of a total pool of haplotypes by adventive sequences, on the results of phylogeographic analysis. An algorithm for identifying the latter is proposed.

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This study focused on the consequences of underestimating the effects of biological invasions on phylogeographic analysis, and proposed an algorithm for identifying adventive sequences in order to mitigate contamination of haplotypes.