Cryptic genetic divergence within threatened species of Acropora coral from the Indian and Pacific Oceans

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 577-591

  Richards, Zoe T ^a   Berry, Oliver ^b   van Oppen, Madeleine J H ^c,d  

^a WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation; Cryptic species; Extinction; Gene flow; Population genetics; Scleractinia

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; CONSERVATION STATUS; CORAL; DIVERGENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; MORPHOLOGY; PARADIGM SHIFT; SUBSPECIES;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ACROPORA; ANTHOZOA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 84954316223     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-015-0807-0     Document Type: Article

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