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Genetic structure of capelin (Mallotus villosus) in the northwest Atlantic Ocean.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Kenchington Ellen L, Nakashima Brian S, Taggart Christopher T, Hamilton Lorraine C
Abstract excerpt
Capelin (Mallotus villosus) is a commercially exploited, key forage-fish species found in the boreal waters of the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans. We examined the population structure of capelin throughout their range in the Canadian northwest Atlantic Ocean using genetic-based methods. Capelin collected at ten beach and five demersal spawning locations over the period 2002 through 2008 (N = 3,433 fish)...
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