Genetic structure in the Mediterranean seagrass Posidonia oceanica: Disentangling past vicariance events from contemporary patterns of gene flow

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 557-568

  Serra, I A ^a   Innocenti, A M ^a   Di Maida, G ^b   Calvo, S ^b   Migliaccio, M ^c   Zambianchi, E ^d   Pizzigalli, C ^e,f   Arnaud Haond, S ^g   Duarte, C M ^h   Serrao, E A ⁱ   Procaccini, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^e INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^f ENEA   (Italy)

^g IFREMER   (France)

^h INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Dispersal simulation; Mediterranean; Posidonia oceanica; Simple sequence repeat; Transition zone; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PLANT DNA;

ALISMATIDAE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW;

ALISMATIDAE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MOVEMENTS;

POSIDONIA; POSIDONIA OCEANICA;

EID: 74549143187     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04462.x     Document Type: Article

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