MHC class I-α population differentiation in a commercial fish, the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax).

ABSTRACT: Identifying population structuring in highly fecund marine species with high dispersal rates is challenging, but critical for conservation and stock delimitation for fisheries management. European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) is a commercial species of fisheries and aquaculture relevance whose stocks are declining in the North Atlantic, despite management measures to protect them and identifying their fine population structure is needed for managing their exploitation. As for other marine fishes, neutral genetic markers indicate that eastern Atlantic sea bass form a panmictic population and is currently managed as arbitrarily divided stocks. The genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) are key components of the adaptive immune system and ideal candidates to assess fine struct

SUBMITTER: Ratcliffe FC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9314080 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature