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MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsTheme Sections MEPS 179:155-162 (1999) - doi:10.3354/meps179155 Genetic divergence in natural populations of the Mediterranean brackish-water killifish Aphanius fasciatus Ferruccio Maltagliati* Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Uomo e dell'Ambiente, Università di Pisa, Via Volta 6, I-56126 Pisa, Italy *E-mail: maltagli@discat.unipi.it ABSTRACT: Samples of the brackish-water cyprinodontid fish Aphanius fasciatus from 11 Mediterranean coastal brackish-water habitats were examined for variation at 43 allozyme loci. Sixteen loci were polymorphic in at least 1 population. Estimates of genetic variability revealed low levels of polymorphism, with mean effective number of alleles per locus ranging from 1.02 (SE 0.01) to 1.10 (SE 0.04) and average expected heterozygosity values from 0.013 (SE 0.007) to 0.062 (SE 0.022). The mean Weir & Cockerham f = 0.060 (SE 0.019) confirmed the general concordance with Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium within populations assessed by exact tests. The presence of various private alleles and the mean value of the coancestry coefficient, q = 0.507 (SE 0.078), indicated a marked genetic divergence among populations. Nei's genetic distance values were characteristic of populations within species, ranging from 0.001 (SE 0.000) to 0.098 (SE 0.044). Genetic affinities obtained by UPGMA cluster analysis were consistent with the geographical distribution of populations. The high degree of genetic divergence among A. fasciatus populations corresponds to the naturally fragmented distribution of the species and to restricted gene flow between populations, due to the limited dispersal potential of the species. Furthermore, genetic and geographical distances between populations are consistent with the prediction that the species is genetically structured by isolation by distance. KEY WORDS: Isolation by distance · Genetic structure · Heterozygosity · Life history traits · Cyprino-dontidae · Allozymes · Mediterranean Full text in pdf format PreviousNextExport citation RSS - Facebook - Tweet - linkedIn Cited by Published in MEPS Vol. 179. Publication date: April 15, 1999 Print ISSN:0171-8630; Online ISSN:1616-1599 Copyright © 1999 Inter-Research.
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