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Gel electrophoresis was used to measure genetic variation in the orange roughyHoplostethus atlanticus. Samples were collected on the continental slope in the Tasman Sea, South-west Pacific Ocean and North-east Atlantic Ocean, at various periods from 1982 to 1984. Twenty-two enzymatic loci were resolved in seven samples to give observed heterozygosities between 0.104±0.037 and 0.125±0.044. There was little genetic differentiation between populations separated by a distance of approximately 21 000 km. Tasman-Pacific and Atlantic samples differed significantly in allele frequency at only two loci, while at a third locus a rare allele was found only in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Smith, P.J. Genetic similarity between samples of the orange roughyHoplostethus atlanticus from the Tasman Sea, South-west Pacific Ocean and North-east Atlantic Ocean. Mar. Biol. 91, 173–180 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00569433
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