Background Marine species can demonstrate strong genetic differentiation and population
structure despite the hypothesis of open seas and high connectivity. Some suggested …

The Catalan Sea, located between the eastern Iberian coast and the Balearic Islands, is a
representative portion of the western Mediterranean basin and provides a valuable case …

Defining the scale of connectivity among marine populations and identifying the barriers to
gene flow are tasks of fundamental importance for understanding the genetic structure of …

Climate change is one of the biggest emerging threats to marine biodiversity in the
Mediterranean Sea. In this chapter, we focus on the recurrent and large scale mass mortality …

Aim Assessing the spatial structure and dynamics of marine populations is still a major
challenge in ecology. The need to manage marine resources from ecosystem and large …

Reef-building corals owe much of their success to a symbiosis with dinoflagellate
microalgae in the genus Symbiodinium. In this association, the performance of each …

Mounting evidence of cryptic species in a wide range of taxa highlights the need for careful
analyses of population genetic data sets to unravel within‐species diversity from potential …

Identifying microevolutionary processes acting in populations of marine species with larval
dispersal is a challenging but crucial task because of its conservation implications. In this …

Two large-scale mass mortality events (MMEs) of unprecedented extent and severity
affecting rocky benthic communities occurred during the summers of 1999 and 2003 along …

This study examines the possible effect of depth on the connectivity and genetic variability in
red coral (Corallium rubrum; Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) populations. Patterns of genetic …