Migration patterns counteract seasonal isolation of Squalius torgalensis, a critically endangered freshwater fish inhabiting a typical Circum-Mediterranean small drainage

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1859-1870

  Henriques, Romina ^a,b   Sousa, Vítor ^a,c   Coelho, Maria Manuela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Critically endangered; Endemic freshwater fish; Intermittent system; Microsatellites; mtDNA; Population structure; Squalius torgalensis

Indexed keywords

CYPRINID; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC MARKER; MIGRATION ROUTE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RIVER SYSTEM; SEASONALITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

BEJA [PORTUGAL]; MIRA RIVER; PORTUGAL;

CYPRINIDAE; CYPRINIFORMES; SQUALIUS TORGALENSIS;

EID: 77956876235     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-010-0078-8     Document Type: Article

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