a) Geographic distribution of examined lakes in Saskatchewan and anostracan taxa found in them; b) Bliss lake, one of the sites with Branchinecta; c) one small edge of Bliss lake with numerous Branchinecta swimming in the water (tiny white stripes).
a) Branchinecta (blue) and Artemia franciscana (yellow) from the Saskatchewan region genetic distances measured as Kimura 2-parameter (K2P) distances in relation to spatial distance, based on the mitochondrial CO1 gene fragment. There was a significant distance decay in the assembled dataset (Mantel test; nperm=999; Branchinecta: r = 0.485, P < 0.001; A. franciscana: r = 0.149, P < 0.001). b) Mantel correlogram for genetic distance (Hellinger-transformed) and geographic distance (log-transformed) in Branchinecta and A. franciscana from the lakes we studied in Saskatchewan, Canada. The filled circles indicate significant correlation within each distance class.
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