Adaptive traits are maintained on steep selective gradients despite gene flow and hybridization in the intertidal zone

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Zardi, Gerardo I ^a   Nicastro, Katy R ^a   Canovas, Fernando ^a   Costa, Joana Ferreira ^a   Serrão, Ester A ^a   Pearson, Gareth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT; DESICCATION; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EXPOSURE; FRANCE; FUCUS; FUCUS PLATYCARPUS; FUCUS SPIRALIS; FUCUS VESICULOSUS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FLOW; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEAT STRESS; INTERTIDAL ZONE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MORPHOTYPE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; PORTUGAL; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SYMPATRY; ADAPTATION; AIR; BAYES THEOREM; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; WATER FLOW;

FUCUS SPIRALIS; FUCUS VESICULOSUS; PHAEOPHYCEAE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AIR; BAYES THEOREM; ECOSYSTEM; FRANCE; FUCUS; GENE FLOW; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PORTUGAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 79958809421     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019402     Document Type: Article

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