Article
Local adaptation and oceanographic connectivity patterns explain genetic differentiation of a marine diatom across the North Sea-Baltic Sea salinity gradient.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jun 2015
Sjöqvist C, Godhe A, Jonsson P R, Sundqvist L, Kremp A
Abstract excerpt
Drivers of population genetic structure are still poorly understood in marine micro-organisms. We exploited the North Sea-Baltic Sea transition for investigating the seascape genetics of a marine diatom, Skeletonema marinoi. Eight polymorphic microsatellite loci were analysed in 354 individuals from ten locations to analyse population structure of the species along a 1500-km-long salinity gradient ranging from 3...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Diatoms
- Gene Flow
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Genotype
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Molecular Sequence Data
- North Sea
- Oceanography
- Salinity