Article
Life on the margin: genetic isolation and diversity loss in a peripheral marine ecosystem, the Baltic Sea.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jul 2006
Johannesson Kerstin, André Carl
Abstract excerpt
Marginal populations are often isolated and under extreme selection pressures resulting in anomalous genetics. Consequently, ecosystems that are geographically and ecologically marginal might have a large share of genetically atypical populations, in need of particular concern in management of these ecosystems. To test this prediction, we analysed genetic data from 29 species inhabiting the low saline Baltic Sea,...
Topics
- Animals
- Atlantic Ocean
- Baltic States
- Bivalvia
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Ecosystem
- Fishes
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Invertebrates
- Mammals