Genes in streams: Using DNA to understand the movement of freshwater fauna and their riverine habitat

BioScience

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 573-583

  Hughes, Jane M ^a   Schmidt, Daniel J ^a   Finn, Debra S ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Molecular tools; Phylogeography; Riverine architecture; Stream ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949140687     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2009.59.7.8     Document Type: Article

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