Connectivity of Caribbean coral populations: Complementary insights from empirical and modelled gene flow

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1143-1157

  Foster, Nicola L ^a,s   Paris, Claire B ^b   Kool, Johnathan T ^c,d   Baums, Iliana B ^e   Stevens, Jamie R ^a   Sanchez, Juan A ^f   Bastidas, Carolina ^g   Agudelo, Claudia ^f   Bush, Phillippe ^h   Day, Owen ⁱ   Ferrari, Renata ^a,t   Gonzalez, Patricia ^j   Gore, Shannon ^k   Guppy, Reia ^l   McCartney, Michael A ^m   McCoy, Croy ^h   Mendes, Judith ⁿ   Srinivasan, Ashwanth ^b   Steiner, Sascha ^o   Vermeij, Mark J A ^p,q   Weil, Ernesto ^r   Mumby, Peter J ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^g UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^h Cayman Islands Government   (Cayman Islands)

ⁱ Carnbee Junction   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^j Centro de Investigaciones Marinas   (Cuba)

^k Ministry of Natural Resources and Labour ^*  (Virgin Islands (British))

^l UNIVERSITY OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^m UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^o ITME Inc   (Dominica)

^p CARMABI FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^q UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^r UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^s UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^t UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

more..

Author keywords

Caribbean; connectivity; individual based model; microsatellites; Montastraea annularis

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA; INVERTEBRATA; MONTASTRAEA ANNULARIS;

EID: 84857627543     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05455.x     Document Type: Article

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