Genetic connectivity in scleractinian corals across the northern Gulf of Mexico: Oil/gas platforms, and relationship to the Flower Garden Banks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Sammarco, Paul W ^a,b   Brazeau, Daniel A ^c,e   Sinclair, James ^d  

^a LOUISIANA UNIVERSITIES MARINE CONSORTIUM   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; CORAL REEF; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GULF OF MEXICO; MADRACIS DECACTIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DISPERSION; TUBASTRAEA COCCINEA; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETICS; OIL AND GAS FIELD; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANTHOZOA; MADRACIS DECACTIS; SCLERACTINIA; TUBASTRAEA COCCINEA;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BAYES THEOREM; CORAL REEFS; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GULF OF MEXICO; MODELS, GENETIC; OIL AND GAS FIELDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84860428474     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030144     Document Type: Article

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