Increased Inter-Colony Fusion Rates Are Associated with Reduced COI Haplotype Diversity in an Invasive Colonial Ascidian Didemnum vexillum

• Kirsty F. Smith ,

  * E-mail: kirsty.smith@cawthron.org.nz

  Affiliations Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

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• Lauren Stefaniak,

  Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Yasunori Saito,

  Affiliation Shimoda Marine Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Shimoda, Shizuoka, Japan

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• Chrissen E. C. Gemmill,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

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• S. Craig Cary,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

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• Andrew E. Fidler

  Affiliation Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand

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