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Determination of the evolutionary history of the European sturgeon is severely handicapped by its recent decline. Studying ancient biological material such as museum specimens or archaeological remains represents the only opportunity to access the past diversity of the species. Extracting and analyzing DNA from ancient material provide the means to compare genetically sturgeons from the entire former geographical range of the species. Here we present a combination of paleogenetic data which gives new insights on phylogeographic patterns of A. sturio. A high genetic diversity was present on the Iberian Atlantic coast, as well as in the Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas, which is concluded to represent the origin of the species range. Contrastingly, the diversity was low on the European Atlantic and the North Sea coasts as well as in the Black Sea, suggesting that these areas were colonized only recently.
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We would like to thank all museum curators (Paris, Lyon, Nice, Grenoble, Genève, Nîmes, Avignon, Marseille, Florence, Bucharest) for allowing us to sample sturgeons in their collections, Laurent Brosse and Valentin Radu for sampling some of the museum specimens, and all members of the teams Paleogenetics and Molecular Evolution (IGFL, UMR5242) and Métapopulations, Coévolution et Conservation (ISEM, UMR5554) for their support.
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Chassaing, O., Desse-Berset, N., Duffraisse, M., Piquès, G., Hänni, C., Berrebi, P. (2011). Palaeogeographic Patterns of A. sturio . In: Williot, P., Rochard, E., Desse-Berset, N., Kirschbaum, F., Gessner, J. (eds) Biology and Conservation of the European SturgeonAcipenser sturioL. 1758. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20611-5_8
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