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- Title
Population connectivity of the plating coral <italic>Agaricia lamarcki</italic> from southwest Puerto Rico.
- Authors
Hammerman, Nicholas M.; Rivera-Vicens, Ramon E.; Galaska, Matthew P.; Weil, Ernesto; Appledoorn, Richard S.; Alfaro, Monica; Schizas, Nikolaos V.
- Abstract
Identifying genetic connectivity and discrete population boundaries is an important objective for management of declining Caribbean reef-building corals. A double digest restriction-associated DNA sequencing protocol was utilized to generate 321 single nucleotide polymorphisms to estimate patterns of horizontal and vertical gene flow in the brooding Caribbean plate coral, <italic>Agaricia lamarcki</italic>. Individual colonies (<italic>n</italic> = 59) were sampled from eight locations throughout southwestern Puerto Rico from six shallow (~ 10–20 m) and two mesophotic habitats (~ 30–40 m). Descriptive summary statistics (fixation index, <italic>F</italic>ST), analysis of molecular variance, and analysis through landscape and ecological associations and discriminant analysis of principal components estimated high population connectivity with subtle subpopulation structure among all sampling localities.
- Subjects
PUERTO Rico; CORAL declines; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE sequencing; SINGLE nucleotide polymorphisms
- Publication
Coral Reefs, 2018, Vol 37, Issue 1, p183
- ISSN
0722-4028
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00338-017-1646-x