Islands of water in a sea of dry land: Hydrological regime predicts genetic diversity and dispersal in a widespread fish from Australias arid zone, the golden perch (Macquaria ambigua)

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 4723-4737

  Faulks, Leanne K ^a   Gilligan, Dean M ^b   Beheregaray, Luciano B ^a,c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b New South Wales Department of Industry and Investment   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

climate change; conservation genetics; landscape ecology; landscape genetics; Murray Darling Basin; phylogeography

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENT; FLOODING; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; PERCH; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; ENVIRONMENT; FLOODS; FRESH WATER; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PERCHES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

MACQUARIA AMBIGUA; PISCES;

EID: 78149427542     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04848.x     Document Type: Article

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