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Remarkably low mtDNA control region diversity in an abundant demersal fish.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Jun 2010
von der Heyden Sophie, Lipinski Marek R, Matthee Conrad A
Abstract excerpt
Cape hake, Merluccius paradoxus, is a valuable commercially exploited demersal species. Using the 5' mtDNA control region we show that 96% of 1013 fishes sampled over a three-year period share one of two dominant haplotypes; 19 haplotypes were recovered in total, suggesting a genetically homogenous population of fish. Accordingly, haplotype and nucleotide diversities are low (h = 0.53, pi = 0.0014); an asymptotic...
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