Volume 66
Genetic Population Structure of Caribbean Spiny Lobster
Authors
Truelove, N., S. Box, D. Behringer, Jr., M. Butler IV, and R. Preziosi Download PDF Open PDF in BrowserOther Information
Date: November, 2013
Pages: 452 453
Event: Proceedings of the Sixty six Annual Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute
City: Corpus Christy
Country: USA
Abstract
Our research combined population genetics data from microsatellite markers with data from biophysical modeling to explore associations among levels of connectivity, genetic population structure, and potential barriers to larval dispersal throughout the range of spiny lobster, Panulirus argus. The results from our large-scale population genetics study of the spiny lobster among several advective and retentive oceanographic environments throughout the Caribbean suggest that the long-lived larvae of P. argus disperse among sites throughout their range frequently enough to homogenize the genetic population structure of this species, except for a few sites where self-recruitment is enhanced by persistent offshore gyres.