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Genetic prospective of a local invader: the strange pattern of Pontastacus leptodactylus population structure in Greece and Turkey based on microsatellite DNA.
Molecular biology reports - 14 Jun 2024
Alvanou Maria V, Loukovitis Dimitrios, Kyritsi Stavroula, Apostolidis Apostolos P, Michaelidis Basile, Giantsis Ioannis A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The combination of the increasing demand of freshwater crayfish exports, the reduced population sizes due to overfishing, the crayfish plague epidemics and the habitat degradation, have led to unrecorded translocations of Pontastacus leptodactylus in Greek lakes. METHODS AND RESULTS: In the present study, the genetics of five narrow clawed crayfish (P. leptodactylus) populations were studied, namely...
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