Population genetic structure of walleye pollock Theragra chalcogramma (Gadidae, Pisces) from the Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk
- 11 October 2009
- journal article
- abstracts
- Published by Pleiades Publishing Ltd in Molecular Biology
- Vol. 43 (5), 855-866
- https://doi.org/10.1134/s0026893309050161
Abstract
Walleye pollock Theragra chalcogramma Pallas occupies a central place in ecosystems of the North Pacific and is an important target species of fisheries. The species is characterized by daily vertical, spawning, feeding, and wintering migrations and spawning occurring under the sea ice. Since population structure estimation by the tagging with recapture is inefficient in walleye pollock, the pollock resources are difficult to estimate by conventional methods, requiring population genetic studies with molecular markers. The population genetic structure of five spawning aggregations from the Bering Sea was for the first time studied with ten microsatellite loci: Tch5, Tch10, Tch11, Tch12, Tch14, Tch16, Tch17, Tch19, Tch20, and Tch22. A spatially distant sample from the Sea of Okhotsk was used as a reference group. Polymorphism for the markers reached 100%, and heterozygosity of individual loci ranged from 41 to 95% in different populations. It was shown the aggregations of interest are in goodness-to-fit the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) at hole, while the Sea of Okhotsk sample demonstrated a sex bias: the heterozygosity at Tch16 in males was significantly lower than in females. The highest discriminative power was observed for Tch10, Tch20, and Tch22. F ST genetic distances between populations were typical for marine fishes. A mixed composition was supposed for the sample from the region of the underwater Shirshov Ridge, which serves as a natural partial geographic barrier between the Olyutor-Karagin and Koryak walleye pollock stocks. With the Shirshov sample excluded, F ST scatter plots and the spatial autocorrelation approach supported isolation by distance for the aggregations. An influence of abiotic factors on the population structure was assumed for walleye pollock of the Bering Sea.Keywords
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