Taking the chaos out of genetic patchiness: Seascape genetics reveals ecological and oceanographic drivers of genetic patterns in three temperate reef species

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 3708-3726

  Selkoe, Kimberly A ^a,b   Watson, James R ^c   White, Crow ^c   Horin, Tal Ben ^c   Iacchei, Matthew ^a   Mitarai, Satoshi ^c,d   Siegel, David A ^c   Gaines, Steven D ^c   Toonen, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

isolation by distance; Lagrangian particle simulation; landscape genetics; larval dispersal; linear mixed models; marine connectivity

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CORAL REEF; ECOLOGY; GASTROPOD; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OCEANOGRAPHY; PALINURIDAE; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW;

ANIMALS; BASS; CALIFORNIA; CORAL REEFS; ECOLOGY; GASTROPODA; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; LINEAR MODELS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PALINURIDAE; WATER MOVEMENTS;

KELLETIA KELLETII; PANULIRUS INTERRUPTUS; PARALABRAX CLATHRATUS;

EID: 77956069564     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04658.x     Document Type: Article

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