Temporal genetic stability and high effective population size despite fisheries-induced life-history trait evolution in the North Sea sole

• Published in: Molecular Ecology
• Main Authors: Cuveliers, Els, Volckaert, Filip, Rijnsdorp, Adriaan, Larmuseau, Maarten, Maes, Gregory
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Blackwell Science 2011
• Subjects: effective population size; fishery; genetic diversity; historical dna; microsatellites; solea solea; cod gadus-morhua; plaice pleuronectes-platessa; microsatellite null alleles; evolving fish stocks; marine fish; dover sole; overlapping generations; linkage disequilibrium; reproductive success; steelhead trout; Dover; Gadus morhua
• Online Access: https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/353213; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05196.x

Heavy fishing and other anthropogenic influences can have profound impact on a species' resilience to harvesting. Besides the decrease in the census and effective population size, strong declines in mature adults and recruiting individuals may lead to almost irreversible genetic changes in life...