We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Microsatellite DNA markers and morphometrics reveal a complex population structure in a merobenthic octopus species ( Octopus maorum) in south-east Australia and New Zealand.
- Authors
Doubleday, Zoë; Semmens, Jayson M.; Smolenski, Adam J.; Shaw, Paul W.
- Abstract
Five polymorphic microsatellite loci were developed and then used to assess the population genetic structure of a commercially harvested merobenthic octopus species ( Octopus maorum) in south-east Australian and New Zealand (NZ) waters. Beak and stylet morphometrics were also used to assess population differentiation in conjunction with the genetic data. Genetic variation across all loci and all sampled populations was very high (mean number alleles = 15, mean expected heterozygosity = 0.85). Microsatellites revealed significant genetic structuring (overall FST = 0.024, p < 0.001), which did not fit an isolation-by-distance model of population differentiation. Divergence was observed between Australian and NZ populations, between South Australia and north-east Tasmania, and between two relatively proximate Tasmanian sites. South Australian and southern Tasmanian populations were genetically homogeneous, indicating a level of connectivity on a scale of 1,500 km. Morphometric data also indicated significant differences between Australian and NZ populations. The patterns of population structuring identified can be explained largely in relation to regional oceanographic features.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; NEW Zealand; MICROSATELLITE repeats; DNA; BIOMARKERS; ANIMAL population genetics; ULTRASTRUCTURE (Biology); OCTOPUSES; BENTHIC animals
- Publication
Marine Biology, 2009, Vol 156, Issue 6, p1183
- ISSN
0025-3162
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00227-009-1160-y