Lack of population structure in the fiddler crab Uca annulipes along an East African latitudinal gradient: Genetic and morphometric evidence

Marine Biology

Volumn 157, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1113-1126

  Silva, Inês C ^a   Mesquita, Natacha ^a,b   Paula, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b Museu Nacional de Historia Natural Universidade de Lisboa   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; CRAB; CYTOCHROME; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MANGROVE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOMETRY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EAST AFRICA;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; RHIZOPHORACEAE; UCA ANNULIPES;

EID: 77952426641     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-010-1393-9     Document Type: Article

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