TY - JOUR
T1 - A study of the population structure of the Pacific sardine Sardinops sagax (Jenyns, 1842) in Mexico based on morphometric and genetic analyses
AU - García-Rodríguez, Francisco Javier
AU - García-Gasca, Silvia Alejandra
AU - Cruz-Agüero, José De La
AU - Cota-Gómez, Víctor Manuel
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by grants from the Secretaría de Investigación y Posgrado – Instituto Politécnico Nacional ( SIP-20071113 , SIP-20080573 and SIP-20090333 ) and with the support of J.R. Torres-Villegas. FJGR and JDA thank the grants by EDI-IPN , COFAA-IPN , and SNI-CONACYT . We thank the “Colección Ictiológica”, CICIMAR-IPN. We thank Stewart Grant for commenting on an earlier draft of the paper and three anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions and criticism.
PY - 2011/1
Y1 - 2011/1
N2 - Several studies on the Pacific sardine Sardinops sagax have focused on the identification of stock composition and boundaries, using morphometric and genetic analysis. In this study, geometric morphometric body landmarks and control region mtDNA sequences were used to examine the population structure of sardines along the Pacific coast of the Baja California Peninsula. Samples from commercial landings in Ensenada (ENS), Baja California, and Bahia Magdalena (BM), Baja California Sur, were obtained during 2006-2007. The population hypotheses tested were based on the distribution of sea surface temperature (SST) along the coast, which was previously used to define stocks. A total of 275 sardines from ENS and 119 from BM were used in morphometric analysis. Fifty-three sequences from ENS and 106 from BM were used for genetic comparisons. Morphometric results showed differences among the three groups based on SST, suggesting the existence of different morphotypes. Percentage of molecular variance explained by the differences among three groups was significantly different from zero. However, the distribution of haplotypes in the groups did not show a clear phylogeographic pattern. Additionally, mismatch distributions supported relatively similar historical demographic events in the three groups. Although evidence of phenotypic groups along the Pacific coast of the Peninsula was found, current molecular data did not clearly support the existence of a phylogeographically structured population.
AB - Several studies on the Pacific sardine Sardinops sagax have focused on the identification of stock composition and boundaries, using morphometric and genetic analysis. In this study, geometric morphometric body landmarks and control region mtDNA sequences were used to examine the population structure of sardines along the Pacific coast of the Baja California Peninsula. Samples from commercial landings in Ensenada (ENS), Baja California, and Bahia Magdalena (BM), Baja California Sur, were obtained during 2006-2007. The population hypotheses tested were based on the distribution of sea surface temperature (SST) along the coast, which was previously used to define stocks. A total of 275 sardines from ENS and 119 from BM were used in morphometric analysis. Fifty-three sequences from ENS and 106 from BM were used for genetic comparisons. Morphometric results showed differences among the three groups based on SST, suggesting the existence of different morphotypes. Percentage of molecular variance explained by the differences among three groups was significantly different from zero. However, the distribution of haplotypes in the groups did not show a clear phylogeographic pattern. Additionally, mismatch distributions supported relatively similar historical demographic events in the three groups. Although evidence of phenotypic groups along the Pacific coast of the Peninsula was found, current molecular data did not clearly support the existence of a phylogeographically structured population.
KW - Control region
KW - Genetic differentiation
KW - Mexico
KW - Mitochondrial DNA
KW - Morphometric analysis
KW - Pacific sardines
KW - Sardinops
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U2 - 10.1016/j.fishres.2010.11.002
DO - 10.1016/j.fishres.2010.11.002
M3 - Artículo
SN - 0165-7836
VL - 107
SP - 169
EP - 176
JO - Fisheries Research
JF - Fisheries Research
IS - 1-3
ER -