Along-shelf connectivity and circumpolar gene flow in Antarctic silverfish (Pleuragramma antarctica)

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Caccavo, Jilda Alicia, Papetti, Chiara, Wetjen, Maj, Knust, Rainer, Ashford, Julian R., Zane, Lorenzo
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
• Subjects: Article; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; South Orkney Islands; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic silverfish; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6294782/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30552350; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36030-x

The Antarctic silverfish (Pleuragramma antarctica) is a critically important forage species with a circumpolar distribution and is unique among other notothenioid species for its wholly pelagic life cycle. Previous studies have provided mixed evidence of population structure over regional and circum...