Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1982

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

Panulirus argus inhabits western Atlantic coastal waters from North Carolina to Brazil; the planktonic larvae are potentially capable of colonizing the entire species range during their greater than six month existence. Alternatively the larvae may, despite their potential for dispersal, settle-out close to the site at which they were hatched. Restriction endonuclease analysis of P. argus mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) suggests that the species range is divided into local populations. One specimen from Key West, Florida, showed a unique cleavage pattern for at least one endonuclease (BstEII) when compared with twenty-three individuals from the middle and upper Florida Keys. When the lower Keys sample was compared to the middle and upper Keys samples, a tenfold increase in the number of mtDNA base changes was observed in contrast to the same comparison for an upper Keys sample.

Extent

91 p.

Comments

Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1982.|Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1982.

Identifier

FADT14119

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