No apparent genetic bottleneck in the demographically declining European eel using molecular genetics and forward-time simulations

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 813-825

  Pujolar, J M ^a   Bevacqua, D ^b   Capoccioni, F ^c   Ciccotti, E ^c   de Leo, G A ^b   Zane, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anguilla anguilla; Bottleneck; Effective population size; European eel; Forward time simulations

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DEMOGRAPHY; EEL; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; LARVA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; OVERFISHING; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION DECLINE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SARGASSO SEA;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA;

EID: 79955855896     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-011-0188-y     Document Type: Article

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