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Genetic identification of cryptic juveniles of little skate and winter skate
Author(s) -
Alvarado Bremer J. R.,
Frisk M. G.,
Miller T. J.,
Turner J.,
Viñas J.,
Kwil K.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of fish biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1095-8649
pISSN - 0022-1112
DOI - 10.1111/j.0022-1112.2005.00664.x
Subject(s) - skate , biology , zoology , mitochondrial dna , population , identification (biology) , dna barcoding , evolutionary biology , fishery , gene , ecology , genetics , demography , sociology
As the morphological discrimination of winter skate Leucoraja ocellata and little skate Leucoraja erinacea juveniles is unreliable, a genetic assay, based on the restriction digest with Sty I of a segment of mitochondrial DNA cytochrome oxidase I gene, capable of discriminating the species was developed. The reliable identification of species can be used to improve the accuracy of population assessment models.