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Environmental Factors, Genetic Differentiation, and Adaptive Strategies in Marine Animals

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Recent advances in oceanographic research have revealed an impressive spatial and temporal heterogeneity in a number of biotic and abiotic features at different scales. However, the possibility of bringing physical and biological observations in the marine realm into harmony is often precluded by the inadequacy of methods for a correct determination of marine species, particularly at the level of secondary producers. Laboratory and field investigations show that many taxonomic entities, previously considered as “good” species, are instead clusters of reproductively isolated sibling species, or species in statu nascendi among which gene-flow may be reduced. Certain physical conditions play an active role in creating barriers to gene-flow. Populations of the same species from different geographic and/or ecological origin may exhibit genetic differentiation affecting a broad spectrum of characters. Some of these inherited differences are adaptive and maintained by natural selection. Similar genetic changes may be induced also by the impact of man on the environment. The relevance of both long term and short term effects on recruitment is briefly discussed.

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Battaglia, B., Bisol, P.M. (1988). Environmental Factors, Genetic Differentiation, and Adaptive Strategies in Marine Animals. In: Rothschild, B.J. (eds) Toward a Theory on Biological-Physical Interactions in the World Ocean. NATO ASI Series, vol 239. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3023-0_20

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