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Stock Structure Of The Bluefish Pomatomus-Saltatrix Along The Mid-Atlantic Coast, John Graves, Jan Mcdowell, Ana M. Beardsley, Daniel Scoles
Stock Structure Of The Bluefish Pomatomus-Saltatrix Along The Mid-Atlantic Coast, John Graves, Jan Mcdowell, Ana M. Beardsley, Daniel Scoles
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Restriction-fragment length polymorphism analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was used to investigate the genetic basis of stock structure of the bluefish Pomatomus saltatrix along the U. S. mid-Atlantic coast, and to determine the degree of genetic differentiation between mid-Atlantic bluefish and Australian conspecifics. A total of 472 young-of-the-year (YOY) and yearling bluefish collected in New Jersey, Virginia, and North Carolina over a period of 3 years, and 19 YOY bluefish collected in New South Wales, Australia were analyzed with 9 informative restriction endonucleases. Despite considerable mtDNA variation within samples of U.S. mid-Atlantic bluefish, no significant genetic differentiation was detected among …