Parasites as Biological Tags for Stock Discrimination of Beaked Redfish (Sebastes mentella): Parasite Infra-Communities vs. Limited Resolution of Cytochrome Markers.

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Regina Klapper, Judith Kochmann, Robert B O'Hara, Horst Karl, Thomas Kuhn
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Barents Sea; Greenland; Bear Island; Tampen; East Greenland; North East Atlantic; Sebastes mentella
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153964; https://doaj.org/article/0fabd1f3d21a454b9f656434c09d1a32

The use of parasites as biological tags for discrimination of fish stocks has become a commonly used approach in fisheries management. Metazoan parasite community analysis and anisakid nematode population genetics based on a mitochondrial cytochrome marker were applied in order to assess the usefuln...