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The Journal of Heredity 2002:93(5)
© 2002 The American Genetic Association 93:331-351

Geographic Structure in the European Flat Oyster (Ostrea edulis L.) as Revealed by Microsatellite Polymorphism

S. Launey, C. Ledu, P. Boudry, F. Bonhomme, and Y. Naciri-Graven

From the Laboratoire Gé nétique et Pathologie, IFREMER, Ronce les Bains, 17390 La Tremblade, France (Launey, Ledu, Boudry, and Naciri-Graven) and Laboratoire Génome, Populations et Interactions, CNRS UMR 5000, Station Méditerranéenne de l'Environnement Littoral, 1 Quai de la Daurade, 34200 Sète, France (Launey and Bonhomme). Yamama Naciri-Graven is currently at Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques, 1, Chemin de l'Impératrice, CP 60, 1292 Chambésy, Genève, Switzerland.

Address correspondence to Sophie Launey, Laboratoire de Génétique des Poissons, INRA, Domaine de Vilvert, 78352 Jouy en Josas, France.

Genetic differentiation of the flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) was studied along the European coast, from Norway to the Black Sea, by means of variation at five microsatellite loci. The results show a mild but significant isolation-by-distance profile, a noticeable between-sample variance in expected heterozygosity, and a tendency for Atlantic populations to be less variable than Mediterranean ones. This does not provide support for the existence of a single large panmictic population for this larvae-broadcasting species, but rather for the relative independence of local stocks. Comparison with data on allozyme variation from the literature confirms this view. It also leads us to suggest that the behavior of some sampled protein loci may depart from the average, so caution should be used when inferring neutral gene flow.


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