Phylogeographic Structure within the Fiddler Crabs Leptuca thayeri and Uca maracoani (Brachyura, Ocypodidae) along the Tropical West Atlantic.

ABSTRACT: Most fiddler crabs have an extended planktonic larval phase, potentially maintaining gene flow among widely separated populations, in the absence of marine barriers. Such marine barriers could be long coastal stretches without suitable habitat, freshwater plumes caused by large river mouths, or strong currents. Typically, fiddler crabs inhabit mangrove habitats, and as mangroves tend to have a patchy distribution, it is important to gather information on the connectivity between neighboring mangroves and recognize local endemisms. To detect potential genetic differentiation among mangrove-dwelling populations of Leptuca thayeri and Uca maracoani along several thousand kilometers of a tropical coastline, mtDNA sequences of different populations from Brazil and two Caribbean is

SUBMITTER: Marochi MZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9755988 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature