Mitochondrial phylogenomics and genetic population structure of anchovies (Engraulis encrasicolus) along the Moroccan coast using sequence analysis of the mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b
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- Subject Areas
- Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science, Biodiversity, Ecology, Genetics, Marine Biology
- Keywords
- European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus), Morocco, mitochondrial cytochrome b, phylogeography, population structure
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- © 2015 Chahdi Ouazzani et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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- 2015. Mitochondrial phylogenomics and genetic population structure of anchovies (Engraulis encrasicolus) along the Moroccan coast using sequence analysis of the mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b. PeerJ PrePrints 3:e1543v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1543v1
Abstract
A fragment of 680 bp of mitochondrial cytochrome b locus of European anchovies, Engraulis encrasicolus, was sequenced for 138 individuals collected from three Moroccan Atlantic areas and from Moroccan Alboran Sea. These samples were surveyed for diversity and differentiation with a range of summary statistics. The results showed that the most dominant clade in Moroccan anchovy is Clade A with a percentage ranging from 89% in Alboran Sea to 91% - 95 % in the Moroccan Atlantic coast. Overall, there was a significant genetic differentiation among the 4 Moroccan anchovy zones (Φst = 0.01283; p=0.03910). Pairwise Φst among populations and multidimensional scaling revealed a high homogeneity among Atlantic populations but some heterogeneity between Alboran population and Atlantic populations, mainly between the populations from Central Atlantic of Morocco with a significant difference.
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This is a preprint submission to PeerJ.