title: Restricted Gene Flow for Gadus macrocephalus from Yellow Sea Based on Microsatellite Markers: Geographic Block of Tsushima Current.
abstract: The Pacific cod Gadus macrocephalus is a demersal, economically important fish in the family Gadidae. Population genetic differentiation of Pacific cod was examined across its northwestern Pacific range by screening variation of eight microsatellite loci in the present study. All four populations exhibited high genetic diversity. Pairwise fixation index (Fst) suggested a moderate to high level of genetic differentiation among populations. Population of the Yellow Sea (YS) showed higher genetic difference compared to the other three populations based on the results of pairwise Fst, three-dimensional factorial correspondence analysis (3D-FCA) and STRUCTURE, which implied restricted gene flow among them. Wilcoxon signed rank tests suggested no significant heterozygosity excess and no recent genetic bottleneck events were detected. Microsatellite DNA is an effective molecular marker for detecting the phylogeographic pattern of Pacific cod, and these Pacific cod populations should be three management units.
authors.affiliation: Fisheries College, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China. songna624@163.com.
authors.forename: Na
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Song
authors.affiliation: Fisheries College, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China. shelleyliuming@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Fisheries Research Agency, Yokohama 220-6115, Japan. yanagimo@affrc.go.jp.
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yanagimoto
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido 041-8611, Japan. sakurai@fish.hokudai.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Yasunori
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sakurai
authors.affiliation: Fishery College, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan 316022, China. d6339124@163.com.
authors.forename: Zhi-Qiang
authors.initials: ZQ
authors.lastname: Han
authors.affiliation: Fishery College, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan 316022, China. gaotianxiang0611@163.com.
authors.forename: Tian-Xiang
authors.initials: TX
authors.lastname: Gao
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D005399:Fishes / Q000235:genetics*; D014644:Genetic Variation; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics*; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D058974:Phylogeography; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
keywords: Pacific cod; genetic diversity; microsatellite; population genetic structure