Isolation by resistance across a complex coral reef seascape.

ABSTRACT: A detailed understanding of the genetic structure of populations and an accurate interpretation of processes driving contemporary patterns of gene flow are fundamental to successful spatial conservation management. The field of seascape genetics seeks to incorporate environmental variables and processes into analyses of population genetic data to improve our understanding of forces driving genetic divergence in the marine environment. Information about barriers to gene flow (such as ocean currents) is used to define a resistance surface to predict the spatial genetic structure of populations and explain deviations from the widely applied isolation-by-distance model. The majority of seascape approaches to date have been applied to linear coastal systems or at large spatial scales (more than

SUBMITTER: Thomas L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4528533 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature