Demographic history of Diadema antillarum, a keystone herbivore on Caribbean reefs

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1483, 2001, Pages 2347-2353

  Lessios, H A ^a   Garrido, M J ^a   Kessing, B D ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Coalescence; Human impact; Mismatch distribution; Mitochondrial DNA

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ECHINODERM; KEYSTONE SPECIES; MASS MORTALITY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POPULATION GENETICS;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BASE MISPAIRING; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; DEMOGRAPHY; DIADEMA ANTILLARUM; DIADEMA MEXICANUM; ECOLOGY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA URCHIN;

CARIBBEAN SEA;

ANTHOZOA; DIADEMA ANTILLARUM; DIADEMA MEXICANUM; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035935672     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1806     Document Type: Article

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