Analysis of coastal cod (Gadus morhua L.) sampled on spawning sites reveals a genetic gradient throughout Norway's coastline

Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.) has formed the basis of many economically significant fisheries in the North Atlantic, and is one of the best studied marine fishes, but a legacy of overexploitation has depleted populations and collapsed fisheries in several regions. Previous studies have identified c...

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Published in:BMC Genetics
Main Authors: Dahle, Geir, Quintela, María, Johansen, Torild, Westgaard, Jon-Ivar, Besnier, Francois, Aglen, Asgeir, Jørstad, Knut Eirik, Glover, Kevin
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2018
Subjects:
Arctic
Norway
Arctic cod
atlantic cod
Gadus morhua
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2562729
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12863-018-0625-8
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Summary:Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.) has formed the basis of many economically significant fisheries in the North Atlantic, and is one of the best studied marine fishes, but a legacy of overexploitation has depleted populations and collapsed fisheries in several regions. Previous studies have identified considerable population genetic structure for Atlantic cod. However, within Norway, which is the country with the largest remaining catch in the Atlantic, the population genetic structure of coastal cod (NCC) along the entire coastline has not yet been investigated. We sampled > 4000 cod from 55 spawning sites. All fish were genotyped with 6 microsatellite markers and Pan I (Dataset 1). A sub-set of the samples (1295 fish from 17 locations) were also genotyped with an additional 9 microsatellites (Dataset 2). Otoliths were read in order to exclude North East Arctic Cod (NEAC) from the analyses, as and where appropriate. publishedVersion

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