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    Murky waters: Searching for structure in genetically depauperate blue threadfin populations of Western Australia

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    Authors
    Horne, J.
    Momigliano, P.
    Van Herwerden, L.
    Newman, Stephen
    Date
    2013
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Horne, J. and Momigliano, P. and Van Herwerden, L. and Newman, S. 2013. Murky waters: Searching for structure in genetically depauperate blue threadfin populations of Western Australia. Fisheries Research. 146: pp. 1-6.
    Source Title
    Fisheries Research
    Additional URLs
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165783613000817?via=ihub
    ISSN
    01657836
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25563
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The blue threadfin (Eleutheronema tetradactylum) is an exploited fishery species in southeast Asia andAustralia. Demographic studies have revealed fine-scale stock structure throughout the Australian coastline, with demographically isolated populations separated by only tens of km. Similarly, populationgenetic analysis revealed fine-scale structure across most of its Australian range with important implications for fisheries management. However, in northern Western Australia, genetic stock structureanalysis showed a contradictory lack of structure. In the present study, one mtDNA marker and a suiteof five microsatellite loci were used to further investigate the stock structure of Western Australian bluethreadfin populations. By increasing sample sizes from previously investigated areas: Roebuck Bay (n = 93 adults) and Eighty-mile Beach (n = 92 adults and 163 recruits from two settlement cohorts), we were able to detect subtle genetic differentiation that was previously obscured by low levels of genetic polymorphism. Therefore, the same fine-scale stock structure that has been observed elsewhere in this species also appears to exist in Western Australia. This has clear ramifications for a revised management strategy that incorporates the fine scale structuring of northwest Western Australian stocks of the blue threadfin.

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