Genetic variations in Clupea pallasii herring from Sea of Okhotsk based on microsatellite markers

• Published in: Russian journal of genetics Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 175 - 179
• Main Authors: Semenova, A. V, Stroganov, A. N, Smirnov, A. A, Afanas’ev, K. I, Rubtsova, G. A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Springer-Verlag 01.02.2014; Springer US
• Subjects: Animal Genetics; Animal Genetics and Genomics; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Clupea; Clupea pallasii; genetic variation; herring; heterozygosity; Human Genetics; loci; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; microsatellite repeats; Okhotsk Sea; Genetic Differentiation; Atlantic Herring; Pacific Herring; Clupea Harengus; Microsatellite Locus
• ISSN: 1022-7954; 1608-3369
• DOI: 10.1134/S1022795413120107

The genetic variations among spawning groups of herrings from different spawning grounds of the northwestern part of the Sea of Okhotsk was assessed using ten microsatellite loci. All loci were polymorphic with the expected heterozygosity estimates varying at different loci in the range of 0.7–95.0% (with a mean of 68.5%). The degree of genetic differentiation displayed by the herrings from the Sea of Okhotsk was not statistically significant (θ = 0.74%). The level of pairwise genetic differentiation F ST varied in the range of 0.002–0.014, nor was it statistically significant in all comparison pairs between the herring samples.