Journal
MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES
Volume 368, Issue -, Pages 189-195Publisher
INTER-RESEARCH
DOI: 10.3354/meps07607
Keywords
Dispersal; Coastal topography; Connectivity
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- Rhodes University
- National Research Foundation of South Africa [2069119]
- Claude Harris Leon postdoctoral research fellowship Foundation
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Understanding population connectivity is fundamental] to ecology, and, for sedentary organisms, connectivity is achieved through larval dispersal. We tested whether coastal topography influences genetic structure in Perna Perna mussels by comparing populations inside bays and on the open coast. Higher hydrodynamic stress on the open coast produces higher mortality and thus genetic turnover. Populations on the open coast had fewer private haplotypes and less genetic endemism than those inside bays. Gene flow analysis showed that bays act as Source populations, with greater migration rates Out. of bays than into them. Differences in genetic structure on scales of 10s of kilometres show that coastal configuration strongly affects selection, larval dispersal and haplotype diversity,
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