Review of albacore tuna, Thunnus alalunga, biology, fisheries and management

N Nikolic, G Morandeau, L Hoarau, W West… - Reviews in fish biology …, 2017 - Springer
Albacore is one of the most important commercially harvested species in the world's oceans.
Despite a long history of scientific research, there is no global review or synthesis of …

Comparative phylogeography of the ocean planet

BW Bowen, MR Gaither, JD DiBattista… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding how geography, oceanography, and climate have ultimately shaped marine
biodiversity requires aligning the distributions of genetic diversity across multiple taxa. Here …

Comparative phylogeography of Atlantic bluefin tuna and swordfish: the combined effects of vicariance, secondary contact, introgression, and population expansion …

JRA Bremer, J Viñas, J Mejuto, B Ely, C Pla - Molecular Phylogenetics and …, 2005 - Elsevier
Comparative phylogeography has revealed remarkable patterns of concordance in the
maternal phylogenies of many species. The phylogeography and historical demography of …

A Validated Methodology for Genetic Identification of Tuna Species (Genus Thunnus)

J Vinas, S Tudela - PLOS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Background Tuna species of the genus Thunnus, such as the bluefin tunas, are some of the
most important and yet most endangered trade fish in the world. Identification of these …

Consequences of the historical demography on the global population structure of two highly migratory cosmopolitan marine fishes: the yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) and …

B Ely, J Viñas, JR Alvarado Bremer, D Black… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2005 - Springer
Background Yellowfin and skipjack tuna are globally distributed in the world's tropical and
sub-tropical oceans. Since little, if any, migration of these fishes occurs between the Atlantic …

A review and tests of hypotheses about causes of the KwaZulu-Natal sardine run

P Fréon, JC Coetzee, CD Van der Lingen… - African Journal of …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The term 'sardine run'is part of the cultural heritage of the South African nation and refers to
a natural phenomenon that is well known to the general public but still poorly understood …

Fishes that rule the world: circumtropical distributions revisited

MR Gaither, BW Bowen, LA Rocha… - Fish and Fisheries, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Briggs () published the first checklist of circumtropical fishes with 107 species. This work
served for a half century as the most comprehensive checklist of globally distributed fishes …

A Tale of Three Tails: Cryptic Speciation in a Globally Distributed Marine Fish of the Genus Seriola

N Martinez-Takeshita, CM Purcell, CL Chabot… - Copeia, 2015 - meridian.allenpress.com
Genetic data are increasingly being applied to re-evaluate past taxonomic hypotheses and
better understand the evolutionary patterns and connectivity among regional populations of …

Spatial and Sex-Specific Variation in Growth of Albacore Tuna (Thunnus alalunga) across the South Pacific Ocean

AJ Williams, JH Farley, SD Hoyle, CR Davies, SJ Nicol - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Spatial variation in growth is a common feature of demersal fish populations which often
exist as discrete adult sub-populations linked by a pelagic larval stage. However, it remains …

[HTML][HTML] Applications of DNA barcoding to fish landings: authentication and diversity assessment

A Ardura, S Planes, E Garcia-Vazquez - ZooKeys, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
DNA barcoding methodologies are being increasingly applied not only for scientific
purposes but also for diverse real-life uses. Fisheries assessment is a potential niche for …