| rapid recovery of genetic diversity of dogwhelk (nucella lapillus l.) populations after local extinction and recolonization contradicts predictions from life-history characteristics. | the dogwhelk nucella lapillus is a predatory marine gastropod populating north atlantic rocky shores. as with many other gastropod species, n. lapillus was affected by tributyltin (tbt) pollution during the 1970s and 1980s, when local populations became extinct. after a partial ban on tbt in the united kingdom in 1987, vacant sites have been recolonized. n. lapillus lacks a planktonic larval stage and is therefore expected to have limited dispersal ability. relatively fast recolonization of some ... | 2004 | 15245396 |