Larval tolerance, gene flow, and the northern geographic range limit of fiddler crabs

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2882-2894

  Sanford, Eric ^a   Holzman, Samuel B ^b   Haney, Robert A ^b   Rand, David M ^b   Bertness, Mark D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Cape cod, massachusetts; Counter gradient variation; Dispersal; Fiddler crab; Gene flow; Larvae; Peripheral populations; Range boundaries; Selection; Thermal tolerance; Uca pugnax

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ADAPTATION; CRAB; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE FLOW; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; LARVA; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORTALITY RISK; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTON; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SALTMARSH; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOLERANCE; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRACHYURA; CHEMISTRY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAPLOTYPE; LARVA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE; TIME; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; LARVA; MASSACHUSETTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEASONS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WETLANDS;

MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; SCITUATE; UNITED STATES;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MINUCA PUGNAX; OCYPODIDAE;

EID: 33845465398     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[2882:LTGFAT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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