| population structure of macrobrachium australiense (decapoda: palaemonidae) in western queensland, australia: the role of contemporary and historical processes. | rivers of western queensland, australia, represent a discontinuous and variable aquatic habitat for the freshwater fauna of the region. rivers periodically fluctuate between being highly fragmented, with numerous disconnected waterholes and ephemeral channels, and being highly connected by a dominant system of anastomosing channels. we used mitochondrial sequences to investigate the genetic structure and inferred patterns of dispersal associated with this flow regime for the freshwater prawn, ma ... | 2004 | 15329659 |