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Genetic identity of YOY bluefin tuna from the eastern and western Atlantic spawning areas.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Carlsson Jens, McDowell Jan R, Carlsson Jeanette E L, Graves John E
Abstract excerpt
We used 320 young-of-the-year (YOY) specimens of the highly migratory and overfished Atlantic bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus, Linnaeus 1758, to evaluate the hypothesis that Atlantic bluefin tuna comprises 2 stocks with spawning grounds in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Mediterranean Sea. Significant genetic differentiation at 8 nuclear microsatellite loci (F(ST) = 0.0059, P = 0.0005) and at the mitochondrial...
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