Population structure and adaptive differentiation in the sea cucumber Apostichopus californicus and implications for spatial resource management.

Abstract excerpt

A growing body of evidence suggests that spatial population structure can develop in marine species despite large population sizes and high gene flow. Characterizing population structure is important for the effective management of exploited species, as it can be used to identify appropriate scales of management in fishery and aquaculture contexts. The California sea cucumber, Apostichopus californicus, is one...

Topics

• Animals
• Sea Cucumbers
• Genetics, Population
• Sequence Analysis, DNA
• Gene Flow
• Washington
• Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide