Genetic diversity despite population collapse in a critically endangered Marine fish: The smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata)

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 643-652

  Chapman, Demian D ^a   Simpfendorfer, Colin A ^b,f   Wiley, Tonya R ^b,g   Poulakis, Gregg R ^c   Curtis, Caitlin ^c   Tringali, Michael ^c   Carlson, John K ^d   Feldheim, Kevin A ^e  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR SHARK RESEARCH   (United States)

^c FISH AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d SOUTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^e FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^f JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g Haven Worth Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

elasmobranch; genetic bottleneck; genetic drift; inbreeding; K selected species; microsatellites

Indexed keywords

BOTTLENECK POPULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; ELASMOBRANCHII; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FISH; FISH GENETICS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; INBREEDING; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; LIFE HISTORY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION BIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISTIS PECTINATA; SIMULATION; SMALLTOOTH SAWFISH; SPECIES EXTINCTION; UNITED STATES;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ELASMOBRANCHII; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; FLORIDA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HETEROZYGOTE; INBREEDING; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DENSITY;

ELASMOBRANCHII; PRISTIDAE; PRISTIS PECTINATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80054913653     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esr098     Document Type: Conference Paper

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