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Late Pleistocene dispersal of Indian-Pacific sardine populations in an ancient lineage of the genusSardinops

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Temperate sardines fall into two related monotypic genera,Sardina andSardinops. Sardina exists as a cluster of subpopulations in the northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, andSardinops encompasses five geographically-isolated regional populations: (1) South Africa-Namibia, (2) Australia-New Zealand, (3) Chile-Peru, (4) Mexico-California and (5) Japan-Russia. We surveyed electrophoretic variability in the products of 34 protein encoding loci inSardina (N=26) and the five Indian-Pacific populations ofSardinops (N=222), collected from 1983 to 1991. Nei's genetic distances (<D) between samples ofSardina andSardinops averaged 1.04 and are typical of distances between species of related genera.<Ds between the regional forms ofSardinops were <-0.011, indicating thatSardinops consists of a single species with widely-scattered subpopulations. Assuming a molecular clock calibrated by the rise of the Panama Isthmus and the opening of the Bering Strait, these genetic distances correspond to times since divergence of <200 000 yr. AlthoughSardinops populations showed a significant degree of allele-frequency heterogeneity (F ST, a measure of population differentiation, averaged 0.085 over 8 polymorphic loci), the distribution of genetic distances and tests of allele-frequency heterogeneity could not distinguished between hypotheses of north-south antitropical or east-west oceanic dispersal. Low levels of gene diversity inSardinops and mutation-drift disequilibria are consistent with a strong reduction in population size before the Late Pleistocene dispersal to the corners of the Indian-Pacific Oceans of an ancestralSardinops population.

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Grant, W.S., Leslie, R.W. Late Pleistocene dispersal of Indian-Pacific sardine populations in an ancient lineage of the genusSardinops . Mar. Biol. 126, 133–142 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00571385

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