Fishery-Induced Selection for Slow Somatic Growth in European Eel
Both theoretical and experimental studies have shown that fishing mortality can induce adaptive responses in body growth rates of fishes in the opposite direction of natural selection. We compared body growth rates in European eel (Anguilla anguilla) from three Mediterranean stocks subject to differ...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3358250 2023-05-15T13:27:28+02:00 Fishery-Induced Selection for Slow Somatic Growth in European Eel Bevacqua, Daniele Capoccioni, Fabrizio Melià, Paco Vincenzi, Simone Pujolar, José M. De Leo, Giulio A. Ciccotti, Eleonora 2012-05-22 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3358250 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22666373 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0037622 en eng Public Library of Science http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3358250 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22666373 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0037622 Bevacqua et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. CC-BY Research Article Text 2012 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0037622 2013-09-04T07:38:06Z Both theoretical and experimental studies have shown that fishing mortality can induce adaptive responses in body growth rates of fishes in the opposite direction of natural selection. We compared body growth rates in European eel (Anguilla anguilla) from three Mediterranean stocks subject to different fishing pressure. Results are consistent with the hypotheses that i) fast-growing individuals are more likely to survive until sexual maturity than slow-growing ones under natural conditions (no fishing) and ii) fishing can select for slow-growing individuals by removing fast-growing ones. Although the possibility of human-induced evolution seems remote for a panmictic species like such as the European eel, further research is desirable to assess the implications of the intensive exploitation on this critically endangered fish. Text Anguilla anguilla European eel PubMed Central (PMC) PLoS ONE 7 5 e37622 |
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Both theoretical and experimental studies have shown that fishing mortality can induce adaptive responses in body growth rates of fishes in the opposite direction of natural selection. We compared body growth rates in European eel (Anguilla anguilla) from three Mediterranean stocks subject to different fishing pressure. Results are consistent with the hypotheses that i) fast-growing individuals are more likely to survive until sexual maturity than slow-growing ones under natural conditions (no fishing) and ii) fishing can select for slow-growing individuals by removing fast-growing ones. Although the possibility of human-induced evolution seems remote for a panmictic species like such as the European eel, further research is desirable to assess the implications of the intensive exploitation on this critically endangered fish. |
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Fishery-Induced Selection for Slow Somatic Growth in European Eel |
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Fishery-Induced Selection for Slow Somatic Growth in European Eel |
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Fishery-Induced Selection for Slow Somatic Growth in European Eel |
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