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Ciencias marinas
versão impressa ISSN 0185-3880
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ROCHA-OLIVARES, A et al. Mitochondrial variability of dolphinfish Coryphaena hippurus populations in the Pacific Ocean. Cienc. mar [online]. 2006, vol.32, n.3, pp.569-578. ISSN 0185-3880.
Patterns of genetic structure among marine populations involve a variety of dispersal mechanisms and spatial scales. Pelagic species, such as the dolphinfish Coryphaena hippurus, epitomize the open and continuous nature of the marine environment due to their extensive migrations. Many studies have revealed that oceanic pelagic species tend to be genetically homogeneous over local and often extended geographic scales and only show levels of differentiation among extreme localities or ocean basins. Here we present genetic data suggesting genetic heterogeneity in the dolphinfish at geographic scales much smaller than those predicted by those generalizations. Mitochondrial NADH1 gene RFLPs revealed a highly significant (ΦST = 0.029, P = 0.004, AMOVA) molecular genetic structure among fish from Baja California Sur (BCS), Sinaloa and Hawaii, consistent with heterogeneous haplotype frequencies (P = 0.014, exact test of genetic differentiation) and a depressed molecular diversity in fish sampled off BCS.
Palavras-chave : dolphinfish; NADH1; mitochondrial DNA; genetic structure; RFLPs.