Interspecific hybridization and restricted trans-Pacific gene flow in the Tropical Eastern Pacific Pocillopora

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1304-1312

  Combosch, David J ^a,b,c   Guzman, Hector M ^b   Schuhmacher, Helmut ^c   Vollmer, Steven V ^a,b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corals; Hybridization; ITS; Pocillopora; Tropical Eastern Pacific

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HETEROZYGOTE; HYBRIDIZATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; GENE FLOW; GEOGRAPHY; HETEROZYGOTE; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANTHOZOA; POCILLOPORA; POCILLOPORA DAMICORNIS; POCILLOPORA ELEGANS; POCILLOPORA EYDOUXI; POCILLOPORIDAE;

EID: 39749164123     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03672.x     Document Type: Article

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