Landscape genetic analyses reveal cryptic population structure and putative selection gradients in a large-scale estuarine environment.

Abstract excerpt

Disentangling the relative contributions of selective and neutral processes underlying phenotypic and genetic variation under natural, environmental conditions remains a central challenge in evolutionary ecology. However, much of the variation that could be informative in this area of research is likely to be cryptic in nature; thus, the identification of wild populations suitable for study may be problematic. We...

Topics

• Adaptation, Biological
• Analysis of Variance
• Animal Migration
• Animals
• DNA
• Ecology
• Ecosystem
• Evolution, Molecular
• Fishes
• Gene Flow
• Genetic Variation
• Genetics, Population