An important and potentially testable prediction of
the Kritzer and Sale (2004) model would be asynchrony
in local population demographics but homogeneity in
allele frequencies at selectively neutral genetic markers
(such as used here and in previous studies of red snapper).
Recently documented differences in growth rates
(Fischer et al. 2004), size and age of females at maturity
(Woods et al. 2003), and effective population size (Saillant
and Gold 2002, unpublished results) among red
snapper at the three localities investigated here clearly
indicate different local population dynamics coincident
with homogeneity in both mtDNA haplotype frequencies
(this paper) and nuclear-encoded microsatellites
(Saillant and Gold 2002; unpublished data).