Population structure among octocoral adults and recruits identifies scale dependent patterns of population isolation in The Bahamas

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Volumn 2015, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Lasker, Howard R ^a   Porto Hannes, Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Gorgonian; Isolation by distance; Microsatellites; Octocorallia; Population genetics; Pseudopterogorgia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTILLOGORGIA ELISABETHAE; ARTICLE; BAHAMAS; CARIBBEAN; CORAL; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); NONHUMAN; OCEAN CURRENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION SYSTEM; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84945176655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1019     Document Type: Article

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