From a total of 524 microsatellite loci considered in nearly 40 000 individuals of 78 species,
freshwater fish displayed levels of population genetic variation (mean heterozygosity, h= 0 …

Summary The European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) is a marine fish of key economic
and cultural importance in Europe. It is now more an aquaculture than a fisheries species (> …

Evolutionary branching occurs when frequency-dependent selection splits a phenotypically
monomorphic population into two distinct phenotypic clusters. A prerequisite for evolutionary …

The genetics of marine populations is a subject that has made little progress compared with
the effort spent on the terrestrial environment. This is so despite “applied” aspects such as …

Microsatellite DNA markers were applied for the first time in a population genetic study of a
cephalopod and compared with previous estimates of genetic differentiation obtained using …

We studied the genetic structure at six microsatellite loci of the Mediterranean sea bass
(Dicentrarchus labrax) on 19 samples collected from different localities in the western and …

We analyze published data from 592 AC microsatellite loci from 98 species in five vertebrate
classes including fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals. We use these data to …

Studies on north temperate fish species indicate that new habitat availability following the
last ice sheet retreat has promoted ecological speciation in postglacial lakes. Extensive …

The application of genetic techniques to invertebrate fisheries is in many ways essentially
similar to that in vertebrate (ie finfish) fisheries, for which there is already an extensive body …

Background The high fecundity of fish species allows intense selection to be practised and
therefore leads to fast genetic gains. Based on this, numerous selective breeding …