| An <i>Artemia</i> population from a site recently described in Chile and located in a semi-arid and humid hydrographical zone (Torres del Paine National Park), was electrophoretically characterized and cross-bred (followed through <i>F</i><sub>3</sub>) to reference samples of <i>A. franciscana</i> (San Francisco Bay, California, USA) and <i>A. persimilis</i> (Buenos Aires, Argentina), which are the species most likely to be found in Chile. The population exhibited high levels of genetic variability as judged by the percentage of polymorphic loci (<i>P</i>=53.3), mean number of alleles per locus (<i>n</i>=2.2) and mean heterozygosity (<i>H</i>=0.176). Based on... |
