Population genetic structure of blue-spotted maskray Neotrygon kuhlii and two other Indo-West Pacific stingray species (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae), inferred from size-polymorphic intron markers

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• 作者：Philippe Borsa^a ; ^{philippe.borsa@ird.fr} ; Irma S. Arlyza^b ; Martin Laporte^c ; ^d ; Patrick Berrebi^c
• 关键词：Conservation ; Fishery ; Himantura gerrardi ; Indo-Malay-Papua archipelago ; Population genetic structure ; Taeniura lymna
• 刊名：Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：30 December, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：438
• 期：Complete
• 页码：32-40
• 全文大小：605 K

文摘

Exon-primed, intron crossing DNA markers (EPICs) were screened for Mendelian-like allele size polymorphisms in three stingray species (Himantura gerrardi, Neotrygon kuhlii and Taeniura lymna) from the central Indo-West Pacific, where they are commercially exploited. Four to 7 size-polymorphic intron loci were selected in a species, and were subsequently tested as genetic markers of stock structure. Sharp genetic differentiation was observed between populations within each species across the Indo-Malay-Papua archipelago (Weir and Cockerham's -values reaching 0.153-0.557 over a few thousand kilometers). A trend of increasing genetic differentiation with increasing geographic distance was apparent in N. kuhlii, in which populations distant by 3000 km were differentiated by an estimated  ~ 0.375. This value was an order of magnitude higher than usually reported in coastal benthic teleost fishes and indicates strong sub-population structure. This is likely, at least partly, a consequence of the sedentary benthic habits of N. kuhlii at all life stages. Because replenishment of overexploited populations of N. kuhlii and two other stingray species from the central Indo-West Pacific is unlikely at ecological timescales, management should be planned at the local geographic scale.