Gene flow and isolation among populations of marine animals

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 40, Issue , 2009, Pages 291-310

  Hellberg, Michael E ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Dispersal; Heterozygosity; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNITY; CONNECTIVITY; DISPERSAL; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC MARKER; HETEROZYGOSITY; ISOLATED POPULATION; KINSHIP; LARVAL TRANSPORT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION SIZE; TIMESCALE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77951686514     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.110308.120223     Document Type: Article

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