Estuaries play a crucial role in maintaining marine biodiversity and providing key ecosystem services, but they are increasingly impacted by local anthropization and global climate change. Developing effective management strategies requires a deep understanding of the genetic structure and diversity of marine species, including how their populations are connected across their distributional range. Here, we used cytochrome oxid...

The dispersal mode of estuarine invertebrates has a strong effect on genetic variability and phenotypic expression, potentially maintaining gene flow among widely separated populations or limiting connectivity among close ones. Understanding the dispersal strategies effects can support adequate strategies for environment management and understand the evolutionary history of the studied species. A comparative study on the effec...