2003 Decline of North Atlantic eels: a fatal synergy

• Main Authors: Thierry Wirth, Louis Bernatchez
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: conservation; Atlantic eels; Bayesian inference; microsatellites; demographic history; climatic; Achilles Heel; Anguilla anguilla; European eel; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.526.1658; http://www.evolutionsbiologie.uni-konstanz.de/files/resourcesmodule/@random42f4b858caebe/1123334285_PRSL_2003.pdf

Panmictic species pose particular problems for conservation because their welfare can be addressed effec-tively only on a global scale. We recently documented by means of microsatellite analysis that the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) is not panmictic but instead shows genetic isolation by distanc...