Temporal changes in allele frequencies but stable genetic diversity over the past 40 years in the Irish Sea population of thornback ray, Raja clavata

Heredity

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 120-126

  Chevolot, M ^a,d   Ellis, J R ^b   Rijnsdorp, A D ^c   Stam, W T ^a   Olsen, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d PIAF   (France)

Author keywords

Census population size; Effective population size; Elasmobranchs; Genetic diversity; Raja clavata; Thornback ray

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELE; DEMERSAL FISH; GENETIC VARIATION; METAPOPULATION; MIGRATION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRIC FISH; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; GREAT BRITAIN; MARINE BIOLOGY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SKATES (FISH); VARIATION (GENETICS);

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRISTOL CHANNEL; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRISH SEA; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ELASMOBRANCHII; RAJA CLAVATA;

EID: 48049110761     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2008.36     Document Type: Article

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