High connectivity across environmental gradients and implications for phenotypic plasticity in a marine plant

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 423, Issue , 2011, Pages 57-67

  Bricker, Eric ^a   Waycott, Michelle ^b   Calladine, Ainsley ^b   Zieman, Joseph C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Genetic structure; Microsatellite; Migration; Phenotypic plasticity; Population structure; Seagrass; Thalassia testudinum

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HETEROZYGOSITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MEADOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PROPAGULE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEAGRASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; FLORIDA BAY; GULF OF MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

THALASSIA TESTUDINUM;

EID: 79951654495     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08962     Document Type: Article

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