Dispersal potential and population genetic structure in the marine intertidal of the eastern North Pacific

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 435-456

  Dawson, Michael N ^a   Hays, Cynthia G ^a,d   Grosberg, Richard K ^b   Raimondi, Peter T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d KEENE STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative phylogeography; Connectivity; Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI); Dispersal syndromes; Gene flow; Genetic drift; Migration; Pelagic larval duration; Selection; Synchronously diverging codistributed taxa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905639584     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0871.1     Document Type: Article

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