Microsatellite diversity of a critically endangered sturgeon, Acipenser sturio L. 1758, assessed from museum and archaeological tissue remains
Author: Olivier Chassaing, Nathalie Desse-Berset, Catherine Hanni, Sandrine Hughes, Patrick Berrebi
Redactor: None
Year: 2018
Country: France
Language: English
Type: Text Document
Keywords: Acipenser Sturio, museum remains, archeology remains, Microsatellite diversity
Description: The European sturgeon, Acipenser sturio, was classified as "Critically Endangered" in 1996. Its last natural population is currently living in the Gironde Estuary (French Atlantic coastal region) but has a low level of genetic diversity and is on the brink of extinction. In order to reconstitute the genetic structure, migrations and hybridization of the species across Europe, present-day and ancient tissues from museum specimens and archaeological remains were analysed at nuclear loci. Results obtained shed a new light on the limits of reintroduction for this species.
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