Microsatellite genotypes of marine bryozoan from shallow seagrass habitats in St. Teresa, Florida, USA in June 2017

We integrate a series of experiments to study how dispersal affects the density and relatedness of neighbors, and how the density and relatedness of neighbors in turn affects fitness. In a marine bryozoan, microsatellite genetic markers identified very few half sibs (and no full sibs) in adults from the natural population, and rarely close enough to directly interact.

本研究整合了一系列实验，旨在探讨扩散对邻域密度及其相关性的影响，以及邻域密度与相关性如何进一步影响个体的适应性。在一种海洋苔藓动物中，通过微卫星遗传标记，我们在自然种群中的成年个体中仅识别到极少数半同胞（且无全同胞），且很少达到足够近的距离以进行直接交互。