The maintenance of genetic diversity in the North Atlantic isopod, Idotea balthica

• Main Author: Bell, Tina Marie
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: uga 2009
• Subjects: North Atlantic; Idotea balthica; feeding behavior; phylogeography; reproductive isolation; sexual isolation; speciation; mtCOI; gut contents; genetic diversity; Sotka
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/25736; http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/bell_tina_m_200908_phd

Widely dispersing species experience a variety of abiotic or biotic variables that can affect their distribution and their population genetic differentiation. These variables can be subtle such as differences in microhabitat or community assemblage or more obvious such as continental drift or glacia...