Stock identification of Atlantic cod in U.S. waters using microsatellite and single nucleotide polymorphism DNA analyses

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 375-391

  Wirgin, Isaac ^a   Kovach, Adrienne I ^b   Maceda, Lorraine ^a   Roy, Nirmal K ^a   Waldman, John ^c   Berlinsky, David L ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FINGERPRINTING; GADOID; GENETIC STRUCTURE; POLYMORPHISM; SPAWNING; STOCK IDENTIFICATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHATHAM; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; GEORGES BANK; GREAT SOUTH CHANNEL; GULF OF MAINE; IPSWICH BAY; LONG ISLAND [NEW YORK]; MASSACHUSETTS; MEDWAY; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; STELLWAGEN BANK; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 34247261010     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T06-068.1     Document Type: Article

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