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| Mahe, Kelig; Ider, Djamila; Massaro, Andrea; Hamed, Oussama; Jurado-ruzafa, Alba; Goncalves, Patricia; Anastasopoulou, Aiketerini; Jadaud, Angelique; Mytilineou, Chryssi; Elleboode, Romain; Ramdane, Zohir; Bacha, Mahmoud; Amara, Rachid; De Pontual, Helene; Ernande, Bruno. |
| Otolith shape analysis is an efficient fish stock identification tool. However, most applications used left and right otoliths or only one of them arbitrarily chosen without testing for biases resulting from potential directional bilateral asymmetry (DA) in otolith shape, i.e. a unimodal population-level deviation form bilateral symmetry between right and left otolith shapes. In this study, 560 bogues (Boops boops) were sampled from 11 geographical locations from the Canary Islands to the Aegean Sea and elliptical Fourier descriptors were used to describe their otoliths’ shape. First, a significant otolith DA was observed at the global scale with an average amplitude of 2.77%. However, at the scale of sampling locations, DA was not always significant and... |
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Palavras-chave: Boops boops; Elliptical Fourier analysis; Mediterranean Sea; Side effect; Stock identification. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00468/57967/60418.pdf |
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