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SUBMITTER: Mitarai S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4801315 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mitarai Satoshi S Mitarai Satoshi S Watanabe Hiromi H Nakajima Yuichi Y Shchepetkin Alexander F AF McWilliams James C JC
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160229 11
Hydrothermal vent fields in the western Pacific Ocean are mostly distributed along spreading centers in submarine basins behind convergent plate boundaries. Larval dispersal resulting from deep-ocean circulations is one of the major factors influencing gene flow, diversity, and distributions of vent animals. By combining a biophysical model and deep-profiling float experiments, we quantify potential larval dispersal of vent species via ocean circulation in the western Pacific Ocean. We demonstra ...[more]