Passive rafting is a powerful driver of transoceanic gene flow

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Nikula, Raisa ^a   Spencer, Hamish G ^a   Waters, Jonathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

AFLP; Gene flow; Island; Migration; MtDNA; Rafting

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; OPEN OCEAN; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

NEW ZEALAND;

INVERTEBRATA;

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMPHIPODA; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLLUSC; NEW ZEALAND; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

AMPHIPODA; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENE FLOW; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAPLOTYPES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLLUSCA; NEW ZEALAND; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84872014562     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0821     Document Type: Article

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