Global population genetic structure of the starlet anemone Nematostella vectensis: Multiple introductions and implications for conservation policy

Biological Invasions

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1197-1213

  Reitzel, Adam M ^a,b   Darling, John A ^a,c   Sullivan, James C ^a   Finnerty, John R ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

AFLP; Anthropogenic dispersal; Asexual; Conservation; Introduction; Nematostella vectensis

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CONSERVATION GENETICS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISPERSAL; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; HISTORICAL RECORD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POLYP; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; SALTMARSH; SPECIES CONSERVATION; VULNERABILITY;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ACTINIARIA; ANEMONE; NEMATOSTELLA VECTENSIS;

EID: 46449102022     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-007-9196-8     Document Type: Article

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