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| Hedgecock, Denis; Launey, Sophie; Pudovkin, A. I.; Naciri, Yamama; Lapegue, Sylvie; Bonhomme, Francois. |
| The great fecundity and very high larval mortality of most marine invertebrates and fish make possible substantial variance in the number of offspring contributed by adults to subsequent generations. The reproductive success of such organisms may thus resemble a sweepstakes lottery, in which a minority of progenitors succeeds in replacing an entire population, while the majority fails to procreate. One specific prediction of this hypothesis, that genetic diversity of newly settled cohorts should be less than that of the adult population, is tested in the present study. Microsatellite DNA markers were examined in naturally spawned juvenile European flat oysters Ostrea edulis (L.), collected over a 12-day period in 1993 from the western Mediterranean Sea,... |
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| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2007/publication-2616.pdf |
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