Historical isolation and hydrodynamically constrained gene flow in declining populations of the South-African abalone, Haliotis midae

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 543-555

  Bester van der Merwe, Aletta E ^a   Roodt Wilding, Rouvay ^a   Volckaert, Filip A M ^b   D'Amato, Maria E ^c  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Conservation; Dispersal; Haliotis midae; Hydrodynamics; Microsatellites; Population differentiation; SNPs

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COALESCENCE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISPERSAL; GASTROPOD; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HYDRODYNAMICS; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RANGE EXPANSION; SNAIL;

SOUTH AFRICA;

HALIOTIDAE; HALIOTIS MIDAE;

EID: 79952706656     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-010-0162-0     Document Type: Article

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