Increased inter-colony fusion rates are associated with reduced COI haplotype diversity in an invasive colonial ascidian Didemnum vexillum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Smith, Kirsty F ^a,b   Stefaniak, Lauren ^c   Saito, Yasunori ^d   Gemmill, Chrissen E C ^b   Cary, S Craig ^b   Fidler, Andrew E ^a  

^a CAWTHRON INSTITUTE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 18S; MITOCHONDRIAL OXIDASE 1; OXIDOREDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; BASE PAIRING; CLADISTICS; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIDEMNUM VEXILLUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; INVASIVE SPECIES; JAPAN; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISM COLONY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MOLECULAR GENETICS; UROCHORDATA;

ASCIDIA; DIDEMNUM; VEXILLUM;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEW ZEALAND; PHYLOGENY; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 84856434541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030473     Document Type: Article

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