"Fish Population Genetics"
Research Measure: Industry Research Measure
Funding Type: NDP Marine Research Sub-Programme - Beaufort Awards
Funding Year: 2007
Project Duration: 7 Years
Project Type: Capacity Building
Total Grant-Aid: €3.7m
Research Groups:
- School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast
- Dept. of Zoology, Ecology & Plant Science, University College Cork
Project Summary
To develop research capacity in the priority area of fish population genetics through the funding of a research team that will develop a suite of Genetic Stock Identification (GSI) tools to monitor and predict fish population changes resulting from climate change impacts.
Key Outputs:
- Techniques for parental assignment (genetic tagging)
- Methods to identify and map the extent of evolutionary significant units (populations/stocks)
- Methodologies to assess the proportions of individual populations in mixed assemblages
- Assignment of individual fish to population/stock of origin
- The provision of estimates of effective population size, particularly in declining stocks in marine species
- The monitoring of climate mediated population shifts
- Genome mapping and Quantitative Trait Loci identification.
Objectives:
The general objective of this programme is to increase and to integrate existing research capacity, to maintain continuity, and to conduct both applied and pure research to the highest international standard in the area of fisheries and aquaculture genetics. An additional objective it to retain and expand the existing competitive edge of the Institutions forming this consortium in the field of molecular genetics and ecology. The consortium will be in a unique position to provide scientifically-sound management and conservation advice on relevant fish and invertebrate species from an All-Ireland North-South perspective in face of increasing environmental change. Specifically, the objective of the proposal is to undertake a number of targeted genetic based studies by means of a coordinated All-Ireland North-South approach and availing of the excellent facilities and other biological resources in the Marine Institute. Thus, by providing for the long-term sustainability and conservation of irreplaceable Irish marine bio-resources, we will build on established international expertise to predict the effects of naturally and anthropogenically-induced evolutionary change, including the impact of climate, on the productivity, sustainability and resilience of a number of high-profile commercial finfish and shellfish species.
Further details on Work Package (PDF, 371KB) details are also available.
Key Project Outputs to date:
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Publication Type |
Paper Name |
Journal Title |
Authors |
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Peer-Reviewed Publication |
Characterization of polymorphic microsatellites for the rough periwinkle gastropod, Littorina saxatilis (Olivi, 1792) and their cross-amplification in four congeners. |
Conservation Genetics |
McInerney, C.E, Allcock, A.L., Johnson, M.P. Prodöhl, P.A. |
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Peer-Reviewed Publication |
Pleistocene glaciation events shape genetic structure across the range of the American lobster, Homarus americanus. |
Molecular Ecology |
Kenchington, E. Harding, G. C., Jones, M. W. Prodöhl, P. A |
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Peer-Reviewed Publication |
Demographics and landscape features determine intra-river population structure in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.): the case of the River Moy in Ireland |
Molecular Ecology |
Dillane, E., McGinnity, P., Coughlan, J. P., Cross, M. C., de Eyto, E., Kenchington, E., Prodöhl P. A., Cross, T. F. |
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Peer-Reviewed Publication |
Characterization of polymorphic microsatellites for the periwinkle gastropods, Littorina littorea (Linnaeus, 1758) and their cross-amplification in four congeners |
Conservation Genetics |
McInerney, C. E., Allcock, A. L., Johnson, M. P., Prodöhl, P. A. |
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Peer-Reviewed Publication |
Detrimental genetic effects of interactions between reared strains and wild populations of marine and anadromous fish and invertebrate species: are all species at risk? In M. Holmer (ed), |
Aquaculture in the Ecosystem |
Cross, T.F., Burnell, G., Coughlan, J., Culloty, S., Dillane, E., McGinnity, P., Rogan E. |
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Peer-Reviewed Publication |
Contrasting levels of genetic differentiation among putative neutral microsatellite loci in Atlantic herring Clupea harengus populations and the implications for assessing stock structure |
Hydrobiologia |
Watts, P.C., O’Leary, D., Cross, M.C., Coughlan, J., Dillane, E., Kay, S.M., Wylde, S., Stet, R., Nash, R.D.M., Hatfield, E.M.C. Cross, T.F |
Output - Policy Advice
Genetic information from the programme has inputted directly into the deliberations of the Standing Scientific Committee of the National Salmon Commission, the International Council for Exploration of the Sea (ICES WGAGFM), and the European Union’s Joint Research Centre