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Fine-scaled geographical population structuring in a highly mobile marine species: the Atlantic cod.
Molecular ecology - 1 Feb 2003
Knutsen H, Jorde P E, André C, Stenseth N Chr
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Compared with many terrestrial and freshwater environments, dispersal and interbreeding is generally much less restricted in the marine environment. We studied the tendency for a marine species, the Atlantic cod, to be sub-structured into genetically differentiated populations on a fine geographical scale. We selected a coastal area free of any obvious physical barriers and restricted sampling to a 300-km region,...
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