Temporal analysis of archived samples indicates marked genetic changes in declining North Sea cod (Gadus morhua)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1529, 2003, Pages 2125-2132

  Hutchinson, William F ^a   Van Oosterhout, Cock ^a   Rogers, Stuart I ^b   Carvalho, Gary R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Bottleneck; Fishing impacts; Genetic diversity; Match mismatch; Otolith

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; FISHING; GADOID; GENETIC VARIATION; POPULATION DECLINE;

ALLELE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FISH; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; OTOLITH; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; TEMPERATURE;

ENGLAND (EAST YORKSHIRE); FLAMBOROUGH HEAD; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; GADIFORMES; GADUS; GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 0142074342     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2493     Document Type: Article

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