Migratory behaviour and otolith chemistry suggest fine-scale sub-population structure within a genetically homogenous Atlantic Cod population

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 383-397

  Svedäng, Henrik ^a,b   André, Carl ^c   Jonsson, Patrik ^a   Elfman, Mikael ^d   Limburg, Karin E ^e  

^a Institute of Marine Research   (Sweden)

^b The Swedish Institute for Health Sciences   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetics; Micro PIXE; Microsatellite DNA; Otolith chemistry; Philopatry; Tagging

Indexed keywords

GADOID; GENETIC MARKER; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; OTOLITH; PHILOPATRY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPAWNING; STOCK IDENTIFICATION;

KATTEGAT; ORESUND;

ANIMALIA; GADUS MORHUA; PISCES;

EID: 78149411690     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-010-9669-y     Document Type: Article

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