Genetic diversity and divergence among coastal and offshore reefs in a hard coral depend on geographic discontinuity and oceanic currents

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 222-233

  Underwood, Jim N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acropora tenuis; Gene flow; Genetic connectivity; Leeuwin Current; Management unit; Mass spawning corals; Northwest Australia; Reef building corals

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350324968     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2008.00065.x     Document Type: Article

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