Decline of North Atlantic eels: A fatal synergy?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1516, 2003, Pages 681-688

  Wirth, Thierry ^a,b   Bernatchez, Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlantic eels; Bayesian inference; Climatic changes; Conservation; Demographic history; Microsatellites

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION GENETICS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; EEL; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; BAYES THEOREM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; ANGUILLA ROSTRATA; ANGUILLIFORMES;

EID: 0037424992     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2301     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Angers, B. & Bernatchez, L. 1998 Combined use of SMM and non-SMM methods to infer fine structure and evolutionary history of closely related brook charr (Salvelinus fontinalis, Salmonidae) populations from microsatellites. Mol. Biol. Evol. 15, 143-159.
2. Ashworth, S. T. & Blanc, G. 1997 Anguillicola crassus, a recently introduced aggressive colonizer of European eel stocks. Bull. Francais de la pêche et de la pisciculture 344, 335-342.
3. Attrill, M. J. & Power, M. 2002 Climatic influence on a marine fish assemblage. Nature 417, 275-278.
4. Avise, J. C., Helfman, G. S., Saunders, N. C. & Hales, L. S. 1986 Mitochondria DNA differentiation in North Atlantic eels: population genetic consequences of an unusual life history pattern. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 83, 4350-4354.
5. Avise, J. C., Ball, R. M. & Arnold, J. 1988 Current versus historical population sizes in vertebrate species with high gene flow: a comparison based on mitochondrial DNA lineages and inbreeding theory from neutral mutations. Mol. Biol. Evol. 5, 331-344.
6. Beaumont, M. A. 1999 Detecting population expansion and decline using microsatellites. Genetics 153, 2013-2029.
7. Belkhir, K., Borsa, P., Chikhi, L., Raufaste, N. & Bonhomme, F. 2000 GENETIX v. 4.02, logiciel sous Windows pour la génétique des populations. Laboratoire Génome, Populations, Interactions, CNRS UMR 5000, Université de Montpellier II, Montpellier, France.
8. Castonguay, M., Hodson, P. V., Couillard, C. M., Eckersley, M. J., Dutil, J. D. & Verreault, G. 1994a Why is recruitment of the American eel, Anguilla rostrata, declining in the St. Lawrence river and Gulf? Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 51, 479-488.
9. Castonguay, M., Hodson, P. V., Moriarty, C., Drinkwater, K. F. & Jessop, B. M. 1994b Is there a role of ocean environment in American and European eel decline? Fish. Oceanogr. 3, 197-203.
10. Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. & Edwards, A. W. F. 1967 Phylogenetic analysis: models and estimation procedures. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 19, 233-257.
11. Daemen, E., Cross, T., Ollevier, F. & Volckaert, F. A. M. 2001 Analysis of the genetic structure of European eel (Anguilla anguilla) using microsatellite DNA and mtDNA markers. Mar. Biol. 139, 755-764.
12. Dekker, W. 2000 A procrustean assessment of the European eel stock. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 57, 938-947.
13. Duplessy, J.-C. 1999 Climate and the Gulf Stream. Nature 402, 593-595.
14. Felsenstein, J. 1993 PHYLIP (Phylogeny inference package) v. 3.6. Seattle, WA: Department of Genetics, University of Washington.
15. Feunteun, E. 2002 Management and restoration of European eel population (Anguilla anguilla): an impossible bargain. Ecol. Engng 18, 575-591.
16. Haro, A., Richkus, W., Whalen, K., Hoar, A., Busch, W. D., Lary, S., Brush, T. & Dixon, W. 2000 Population decline of the American eel: implications for research and management. Fisheries 25, 7-16.
17. ICES 2001 Report of the EIFAC/ICES working group on eels from the meeting in St Andrews, NB, Canada, 28 August-1 September 2000. ICES CM 2001/ACFM.
18. Keffer, T., Martinson, D. G. & Corliss, B. H. 1988 The position of the Gulf Stream during quaternary glaciations. Science 241, 440-442.
19. Keigwin, L. D. & Jones, G. A. 1994 Western North Atlantic evidence for millennial-scale changes in ocean circulation and climate. J. Geophys. Res. 99, 397-410.
20. Kennedy, C. V. & Fitch, D. J. 1990 Colonization, larval survival and epidemiology of the nematode Anguillicola crassus, parasitic in the eel, Anguilla anguilla in Britain. J. Fish Biol. 36, 117-131.
21. Lehman, S. J. & Keigwin, L. D. 1992 Sudden changes in North Atlantic circulation during the last deglaciation. Nature 356, 757-762.
22. Lintas, C., Hirano, J. & Archer, S. 1998 Genetic variation in the European eel (Anguilla anguilla). Mol. Mar. Biol. Biotechnol. 7, 263-269.
23. Lynch-Stieglitz, J., Curry, W. B. & Slowey, N. 1999 Weaker Gulf Stream in the Florida straits during the last glacial maximum. Nature 402, 644-648.
24. Maes, G. E. & Volckaert, F. A. M. 2002 Clinal genetic variation and isolation by distance in the European eel Anguilla anguilla (L.). Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 77, 509-521.
25. Maniatis, T., Fritsch, E. F. & Sambrook, J. 1982 Molecular cloning. A laboratory manual. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
26. Mantel, N. 1967 The detection of disease clustering and a generalized regression approach. Cancer Res. 27, 209-220.
27. Marcogliese, D. J. & Cone, D. K. 1993 What metazoan parasites tell us about the evolution of American and European eels. Evolution 47, 1632-1635.
28. Moser, M. L., Patrick, W. S. & Crutchfield, J. U. 2001 Infection of American eels, Anguilla rostrata, by an introduced nematode parasite, Anguillicola crassus, in North Carolina. Copeia 3, 848-853.
29. O'Brien, C. M., Fox, C. J., Planque, B. & Casey, J. 2000 Climate variability and North Sea cod. Nature 404, 142.
30. Page, R. D. M. 1996 TREE VIEW: an application to display phylogenetic trees on personal computers. Comp. Appl. Biosci. 12, 357-358.
31. Pertoldi, C., Hansen, M. M., Loeschoke, V., Madsen, A. B., Jacobsen, L. & Baagoe, H. 2001 Genetic consequences of population decline in the European otter (Lutra lutra): an assessment of microsatellite DNA variation in Danish otters from 1883 to 1993. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 268, 1775-1781. (DOI 10.1098/rspb.2001.1762.)
32. Rahmstorf, S. 1997 Risk of sea-change in the Atlantic. Nature 388, 825-826.
33. Raymond, M. & Rousset, F. 1995 GENEPOP V. 1.2: population genetics software for exact tests and ecumenicism. J. Hered. 86, 248-249.
34. Rice, W. R. 1989 Analysing tables of statistical tests. Evolution 43, 223-225.
35. Saitou, N. & Nei, M. 1987 The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Mol. Biol. Evol. 4, 406-425.
36. Schmidt, J. 1925 The breeding places of the eel. Smithson. Inst. A. Rep. 1924, 279-316.
37. Storz, J. F. & Beaumont, M. A. 2002 Testing for genetic evidence of population expansion and contraction: an empirical analysis of microsatellite DNA variation using a hierarchical Bayesian model. Evolution 56, 154-166.
38. Tesch, F.-W. 1977 The eel. London: Chapman & Hall.
39. Thompson, P. M. & Ollason, J. C. 2001 Lagged effects of ocean climate change on fulmar population dynamics. Nature 413, 417-420.
40. Waples, R. S. 1998 Separating the wheat from the chaff: patterns of genetic differentiation in high gene flow species. J. Hered. 89, 438-450.
41. Weir, B. S. & Cockerham, C. C. 1984 Estimating F-statistics for the analysis of population structure. Evolution 38, 1358-1370.
42. Wirth, T. & Bernatchez, L. 2001 Genetic evidence against panmixia in the European eel. Nature 409, 1037-1040.