Genetic differentiation across eastern Pacific oceanographic barriers in the threatened seahorse Hippocampus ingens

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1989-2000

  Saarman, Norah P ^a,b,d   Louie, Kristina D ^c   Hamilton, Healy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ST; Control region; Eastern Pacific; FST; Gulf of California; Hippocampus ingens; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LIFE HISTORY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TELEOST; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; ECUADOR; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PERU; SAN DIEGO BAY; UNITED STATES;

HIPPOCAMPINAE; HIPPOCAMPUS (FISH); HIPPOCAMPUS INGENS;

EID: 77956873374     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-010-0092-x     Document Type: Article

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