Extensive sympatry, cryptic diversity and introgression throughout the geographic distribution of two coral species complexes

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2224-2238

  Ladner, Jason T ^a   Palumbi, Stephen R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acropora; cryptic species; hybridization; population genetics; population structure

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HYBRIDIZATION; MITOCHONDRION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYMPATRY;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MITOCHONDRIA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMPATRY;

ACROPORA; ACROPORA CYTHEREA; ACROPORA HYACINTHUS; ANTHOZOA; HYACINTHUS;

EID: 84860661492     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05528.x     Document Type: Article

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