Impact of life history traits on gene flow: A multispecies systematic review across oceanographic barriers in the Mediterranean Sea

M Pascual, B Rives, C Schunter, E Macpherson - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Marine species can demonstrate strong genetic differentiation and population
structure despite the hypothesis of open seas and high connectivity. Some suggested …

Seascape genomics provides evidence for thermal adaptation and current‐mediated population structure in American lobster (Homarus americanus)

L Benestan, BK Quinn, H Maaroufi, M Laporte… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Investigating how environmental features shape the genetic structure of populations is
crucial for understanding how they are potentially adapted to their habitats, as well as for …

Population genomics of an endemic Mediterranean fish: differentiation by fine scale dispersal and adaptation

C Carreras, V Ordóñez, L Zane, C Kruschel, I Nasto… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
The assessment of the genetic structuring of biodiversity is crucial for management and
conservation. For species with large effective population sizes a low number of markers may …

Marine stepping‐stones: Connectivity of Mytilus edulis populations between offshore energy installations

JWP Coolen, AR Boon, R Crooijmans… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent papers have suggested that epifaunal organisms use artificial structures as stepping‐
stones to spread to areas that are too distant to reach in a single generation. With thousands …

Looking for hotspots of marine metacommunity connectivity: a methodological framework

P Melià, M Schiavina, M Rossetto, M Gatto… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Seascape connectivity critically affects the spatiotemporal dynamics of marine
metacommunities. Understanding how connectivity patterns emerge from physically and …

Does GST underestimate genetic differentiation from marker data?

J Wang - Molecular ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The widely applied genetic differentiation statistics FST and GST have recently been
criticized for underestimating differentiation when applied to highly polymorphic markers …

Range-wide population structure of European sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax

EL Souche, B Hellemans, M Babbucci… - Biological Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The euryhaline European sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax L., inhabiting the coasts of the
eastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, has had many opportunities for …

Assessing larval connectivity for marine spatial planning in the Adriatic

L Bray, D Kassis, JM Hall-Spencer - Marine environmental research, 2017 - Elsevier
There are plans to start building offshore marine renewable energy devices throughout the
Mediterranean and the Adriatic has been identified as a key location for wind farm …

Population genomics meet Lagrangian simulations: Oceanographic patterns and long larval duration ensure connectivity among Paracentrotus lividus populations in …

M Paterno, M Schiavina, G Aglieri… - Ecology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Connectivity between populations influences both their dynamics and the genetic structuring
of species. In this study, we explored connectivity patterns of a marine species with long …

Temporal and spatial genetic differentiation in the crab Liocarcinus depurator across the Atlantic-Mediterranean transition

M Pascual, F Palero, VH García-Merchán… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Spatial genetic studies often require sampling broadly separated areas, difficult to access
simultaneously. Although comparing localities surveyed at different time periods might result …