ENVIRONMENTAL CORRELATES OF POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION IN ATLANTIC HERRING
Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture · Marine Biological Laboratory · +4 more institutions
Abstract
The marine environment is characterized by few physical barriers, and pelagic fishes commonly show high migratory potential and low, albeit in some cases statistically significant, levels of genetic divergence in neutral genetic marker analyses. However, it is not clear whether low levels of differentiation reflect spatially separated populations experiencing gene flow or shallow population histories coupled with limited random genetic drift in large, demographically isolated populations undergoing independent evolutionary processes. Using information for nine microsatellite loci in a total of 1951 fish, we analyzed genetic differentiation among Atlantic herring from eleven spawning locations distributed along…
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10Topics & keywords
- Biology
- Reproductive isolation
- Isolation by distance
- Population
- Ecology
- Herring
- Pelagic zone
- Brackish water
- Life below water