Aquaculture offers solutions to meet the growing global demand for fish, and reports from the
UN‐FAO indicate that aquaculture production in Latin America (LA) has grown at rates …

Summary White Sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus (WS), are distributed throughout three
major river basins on the West Coast of North America: the Sacramento‐San Joaquin …

Acipenseriformes is an order of ray-finned fishes, comprising 27 extant species of sturgeons
and paddlefishes inhabiting waters of the Northern Hemisphere. The order has a basal …

Caviar‐producing sturgeons belonging to the genus Acipenser are considered to be one of
the most endangered species groups in the world. Continued overfishing in spite of …

Background One of the five basal actinopterygian lineages, the Chondrostei, including
sturgeon, shovelnose, and paddlefish (Order Acipenseriformes) show extraordinary ploidy …

Sturgeons (family Acipenseridae) are one of the most endangered groups of animals. Two
hundred million years of evolution and multiple ploidy levels make this group a unique …

A major limitation in the analysis of genetic marker data from polyploid organisms is non‐
Mendelian segregation, particularly when a single marker yields allelic signals from multiple …

Conservation-focused reintroduction or supplementation programs using wild-born
individuals tend to be more successful than those based on release of captive-born …

Abstract Spontaneous autopolyploidy, a 1.5 x increase in genome size resulting from
second polar body retention after fertilization, has been documented in cultured sturgeons …

Critically endangered sturgeons, having undergone three whole genome duplication events,
represent an exceptional example of ploidy plasticity in vertebrates. Three extant ploidy …