Article
Strong horizontal and vertical connectivity in the coral Pocillopora verrucosa from Ludao, Taiwan, a small oceanic island.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2021
de Palmas Stéphane, Soto Derek, Ho Ming-Jay, Denis Vianney, Chen Chaolun Allen
Abstract excerpt
Mesophotic habitats could be sheltered from natural and anthropogenic disturbances and act as reproductive refuges, providing propagules to replenish shallower populations. Molecular markers can be used as proxies evaluating the connectivity and inferring population structure and larval dispersal. This study characterizes population structure as well as horizontal and vertical genetic connectivity of the...
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