The geological history of the Mediterranean Sea, its hydrography and connection with the
Atlantic Ocean have been well documented. Despite a wealth of historical and …

Human impacts on the world's oceans have been substantial, leading to concerns about the
extinction of marine taxa. We have compiled 133 local, regional and global extinctions of …

The aim of this chapter is to review the biology and fishery, including the management, of
European hake in the north-east Atlantic. The European hake is widely distributed …

An essential prerequisite of a sustainable fisheries management is the matching of
biologically relevant processes and management action. In fisheries management and …

Shallow population structure is generally reported for most marine fish and explained as a
consequence of high dispersal, connectivity and large population size. Targeted gene …

Aim In contrast to the attention given to southern Europe both as a centre of speciation and
differentiation and as a Pleistocene refugium of Western Palaearctic taxa, North Africa has …

Microsatellites have proved to be useful for the detection of weak population structure in
marine fishes and other species characterized by large populations and high gene flow …

The evolutionary importance of introgressive hybridization has long been recognized by
plant evolutionists, and there is now a growing recognition for its potential role in animals as …

The occurrence of seven species of the larval parasitic nematode Anisakis, which can be
used as a biological tag for hake Merluccius merluccius stocks throughout their …

Marine bivalves are sessile or sedentary as adults but have planktonic larvae which can
potentially disperse over large distances. Consequently larval transport is expected to play a …