Genetic structure and relationships in the snail species complex Littorina arcana Hannaford Ellis, L. compressa Jeffreys and L. saxatilis (Olivi) in the British Isles using SSCPs of cytochrome-b fragments

Heredity

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 692-701

  Small, Maureen P ^a   Gosling, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a Atlantic Technological University Sligo   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cytochrome b; Gastropods; Intertidal snails; Littorina; SSCP

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B GENE; GENETIC VARIANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; IRELAND; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SINGLE STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL POLYMORPHISM; UNITED KINGDOM;

GENETIC STRUCTURE; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SNAIL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; DNA; GENETICS, POPULATION; GREAT BRITAIN; HAPLOTYPES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SNAILS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LITTORINA ARCANA; LITTORINA COMPRESSA; LITTORINA SAXATILIS;

EID: 0033854125     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2540.2000.00717.x     Document Type: Article

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