Population structure in a common Caribbean coral-reef fish: Implications for larval dispersal and early life-history traits

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 403-417

  Purcell, J F H ^a,d   Cowen, R K ^a   Hughes, C R ^b   Williams, D A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral reef fish; Dispersal; Genetic population structure; Isolation by distance; Microsatellites; Stegastes partitus

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; LARVA; PERCIFORMES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CARIBBEAN REGION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; LARVA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PERCIFORMES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANTHOZOA; POMACENTRIDAE; STEGASTES PARTITUS;

EID: 59149084995     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: 10958649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2008.02078.x     Document Type: Article

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