Concordance of microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA markers in detecting genetic population structure in the boring giant clam, Tridacna crocea, across the Indo-Malay Archipelago Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is a single, usually non-recombining locus, and often uniparentally inherited. Therefore, its ability to reveal recent gene flow among populations is usually questioned. In this study, the genetic population structure of 16 populations of Tridacna crocea (n = 366) from the Indo-Malay Archipelago (IMA) was examined with 10 microsatellite markers and compared to previous studies using mtDNA, in order to test if the ...