Density‐dependent processes such as growth, survival, reproduction and movement are
compensatory if their rates change in response to variation in population density (or …

Molecular genetic data have found widespread application in the identification of population
and conservation units for aquatic species. However, integration of genetic information into …

Phylogeography is a discipline concerned with various relationships between gene
genealogies—phylogenetics—and geography. The word “phylogeography” was coined in …

The mitochondrial DNA control region is one of the most frequently utilized sequences for
both intra-and interspecific genetic studies of fishes, yet a tenable divergence rate …

The life history of an organism is the series of chronological events that it experiences in
order to survive, grow, mature, reproduce, and recruit to perpetuate the species. The genetic …

The application of genetic techniques to invertebrate fisheries is in many ways essentially
similar to that in vertebrate (ie finfish) fisheries, for which there is already an extensive body …

Genetic population structure of the blacktip shark, Carcharhinus limbatus, a commercially
and recreationally important species in the southeast US shark fishery, was investigated …

Abstract The Eurasian round goby Neogobius melanostomus (Apollonia melanostoma)
invaded the North American Great Lakes in 1990 through ballast water, spread rapidly, and …

Abstract Skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamis), yellowfin (Thunnus albacares) and bigeye
(Thunnus obesus) tuna are the target species of tropical tuna fisheries in the Indian Ocean …

Fishes are the most diverse group of living vertebrates, with more than 24,600 extant
species currently known (Nelson, 1994). For more than a century, systematists have sought …