Population genomics reveals seahorses (Hippocampus erectus) of the western Mid-Atlantic coast to be residents rather than vagrants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Boehm, J T ^a,c   Waldman, John ^b,c   Robinson, John D ^d   Hickerson, Michael J ^a,c  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d MARINE RESOURCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GENE LOCUS; GENE POOL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HIPPOCAMPUS ERECTUS; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; SEASHORE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES INVASION; TELEOST; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASON; SMEGMAMORPHA;

HIPPOCAMPINAE; HIPPOCAMPUS ERECTUS; PISCES;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOMICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEASONS; SMEGMAMORPHA;

EID: 84922343714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116219     Document Type: Article

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