Genetic Differentiation of the Jellyfish Aurelia aurita along the Steep Environmental Salinity Gradient of the Baltic Sea - Combining Drift Model with Molecular Analyses and Habitat Models

Cornelia Jaspers1, José Martin Pujolar1, Christine Gawinski1, Sanna Majaneva2, Maiju Lehtiniemi3 and Hans Harald Hinrichsen4, (1)Technical University of Denmark, Centre for Gelatinous Plankton Ecology & Evolution, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (2)Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, (3)Finnish Environment Institute (Syke), Helsinki, Finland, (4)Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel – GEOMAR, Marine Evolutionary Ecology, Kiel, Germany