Genetic differentiation on multiple spatial scales in an ecotype-forming marine snail with limited dispersal: Littorina saxatilis

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-40

  MÄkinen, Tuuli ^a   Panova, Marina ^a   Johannesson, Kerstin ^a   Tatarenkov, Andrey ^b   Appelqvist, Christin ^a   André, Carl ^a  

^a GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allozymes; Gene flow; Genetic structure; Isolation by distance; Microsatellites; Parallel evolution

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLOZYME; DISPERSAL; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC ISOLATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; MICROHABITAT; POPULATION GENETICS; SNAIL;

GASTROPODA; LITTORINA SAXATILIS;

EID: 43049119631     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.00960.x     Document Type: Article

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