Shifting-balance stock structure in North Pacific walleye pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus)

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1687-1696

  Grant, W Stewart ^a,b   Spies, Ingrid ^c   Canino, Michael F ^c  

^a ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

^c NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Bering Sea; cytochrome oxidase I; Gulf of Alaska; isolation by distance; marine fish; mitochondrial DNA

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; CYTOCHROME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GADOID; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; HOMOGENEITY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; OPEN OCEAN; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

BERING SEA; GULF OF ALASKA; JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PUGET SOUND; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

GADUS; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 77958155010     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsq079     Document Type: Article

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