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SUBMITTER: Saillant EA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9198023 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Saillant Eric A EA Luque Patricia L PL Short Emily E Antoni Luca L Reynal Lionel L Pau Cedric C Arocha Freddy F Roque Pollyana P Hazin Fabio F
Scientific reports 20220614 1
The blackfin tuna, Thunnus atlanticus, is a small tropical tuna exploited by recreational and commercial fisheries in various parts of its range. Information on stock structure is needed to develop management plans for this species but is currently lacking. In this work, 470 blackfin tuna from nine geographic populations were assayed at 13 homologous microsatellite markers to provide a first assessment of stock structure across the species range. The overall divergence among locality samples was ...[more]