Comparative phylogeography of four Indo-Pacific moray eel species (Muraenidae) reveals comparable ocean-wide genetic connectivity despite five-fold differences in available adult habitat

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 437, Issue , 2011, Pages 269-277

  Reece, Joshua S ^a,d   Bowen, Brian W ^b   Smith, David G ^c   Larson, Allan ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Gene flow; Leptocephalus; Moray eel; Phylogeography; Reef fish

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONNECTIVITY; CORAL REEF; EEL; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE FLOW; GENERALIST; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENOMICS; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HOMOGENEITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIFE HISTORY; NICHE BREADTH; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SHALLOW WATER; SPECIALIZATION;

ANTHOZOA; ECHIDNA (FISH); ECHIDNA NEBULOSA; ECHIDNA ZEBRA; GYMNOTHORAX; GYMNOTHORAX FLAVIMARGINATUS; GYMNOTHORAX UNDULATUS; MURAENIDAE; PISCES;

EID: 80052906825     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09248     Document Type: Article

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