BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Determining gene flow and the influence of selection across the equatorial barrier of the East Pacific Rise in the tube-dwelling polychaete Alvinella pompejana

Sophie Plouviez1,2,3, Dominique Le Guen1,2, Odile Lecompte4, François H Lallier1,2 and Didier Jollivet1,2*

Author Affiliations

1 Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Laboratoire Adaptation et Diversité en Milieu Marin, Roscoff, France

2 CNRS, UMR 7144 Station Biologique de Roscoff, BP 74, Place Georges Teissier, 29682, Roscoff, France

3 Duke University Marine Laboratory, 135 Marine Lab Road, 28516, Beaufort NC, USA

4 IGBMC, Laboratoire de Bioinformatique et de Génomique Intégratives, Parc de l'Innovation, Campus Illkirch, Strasbourg, France

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10:220 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-220

Published: 22 July 2010

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Additional file 1:

Primers designed for DNA amplification on Alvinella pompejana. Table of sequences for forward and reverse primers used in the study.

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Additional file 2:

Size and exon-intron structure of the four sequenced genes. Schematic drawings of the gene portion used in which exonic regions are represented by boxes.

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Allele frequencies, expected and observed heterozygosities and Fis estimated from enzyme loci across vent fields. Table of allozyme frequencies and heterozygosities for each sampled population.

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Estimates and 90% Highest Posterior Density (HPD) intervals of demographic parameters from IMa multilocus analysis. Table of 90% HPD intervals for population sizes, migration rates and time since population splitting estimated from the IMa Bayesian computations.

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