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Microsatellite diversity and population genetic structure of redfin culter (Culter erythropterus) in fragmented lakes of the Yangtze River

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Redfin culter (Culter erythropterus) is a small lethic freshwater fish and widely distributed in the adjacent lakes of the Yangtze River of China. Five microsatellite loci were applied to investigate the genetic variation and population structure of redfin culter from seven lakes in the middle-and-lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The gene diversity was high among the populations (H > 0.9), the average number of alleles among seven populations was low with a range from 2.00 to 3.87. The mean observed (H O) and expected (H E) heterozygosity ranged from 0.111 to 0.419 and from 0.162 to 0.750, respectively. Significant deviations from Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium expectation were found in 50% of the total locus-population combination tests in which heterozygote deficits were apparent. The analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) indicated that the percentage of variance among and within these populations were 6.18 and 93.82, respectively. The Fst values (0.062, P < 0.001) among studied populations indicated that there were significant genetic differentiations among redfin culture populations from the scattered lakes with different connections to the Yangtze River. These results are useful for the evaluation and conservation of small freshwater fishes. The factors that may be involved in low intra-population polymorphism and the pattern of the population genetic structure of redfin culter from the Yangtze River were discussed.

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The authors thank Drs. X. Liao, Z. Wang for their assistance in data analyses, two anonymous reviewers and Dr. J. Liu for their critical comments on this manuscript. This study was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (30370225, 30490234), Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2004CB117405), and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSCX2-SW-110).

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    Chunyan Wang, Xiaomu Yu & Jingou Tong

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Wang, C., Yu, X. & Tong, J. Microsatellite diversity and population genetic structure of redfin culter (Culter erythropterus) in fragmented lakes of the Yangtze River. Hydrobiologia 586, 321–329 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-007-0702-x

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