Seascape genomics reveals adaptive divergence in a connected and commercially important mollusc, the greenlip abalone (Haliotis laevigata), along a longitudinal environmental gradient.

Abstract excerpt

Populations of broadcast spawning marine organisms often have large sizes and are exposed to reduced genetic drift. Under such scenarios, strong selection associated with spatial environmental heterogeneity is expected to drive localized adaptive divergence, even in the face of connectivity. We tested this hypothesis using a seascape genomics approach in the commercially important greenlip abalone (Haliotis...

Topics

• Animals
• Cluster Analysis
• Discriminant Analysis
• Environment
• Fisheries
• Genetic Loci
• Genetics, Population
• Genomics
• Genotyping Techniques
• Geography