Affiliation:
1. Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
2. Southwest Fisheries Science Center FED: Southwest Fisheries Science Center Fisheries Ecology Division
3. Northwest Fisheries Science Center Conservation Biology Division
Abstract
Abstract
Twelve pairs of sister taxa in the speciose rockfish genus, Sebastes, overlap coastal distributions but are bathymetrically segregated. These pairs are ideal for comparative studies to understand how life-history traits, historical events, and environment interact to produce population genetic structure. Black rockfish, Sebastes melanops, forms one such pair. Its sister species, yellowtail rockfish (Sebastes flavidus), shows a genetic cline likely influenced by a dispersal barrier at Cape Mendocino, CA and northward range expansion. Due to geographic overlap and close systematic relationship, we predicted black rockfish was influenced by similar evolutionary processes and thus would show genetic pattern concordance with yellowtail rockfish. We analyzed ~ 1000 black rockfish from 22 sites spanning the species’ range to test the null hypothesis of no structure, using the same markers that characterized yellowtail rockfish (i.e., 812 bp of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene and six microsatellite loci). We reject the null hypothesis based on existence of at least three populations and microsatellite genetic divergence that separates the Alaskan and Continental U.S. populations (FCT=0.021, p < < 0.001), and a mitochondrial genetic cline near Cape Mendocino (FCT= 0.132, p < 0.01). We also found single collections genetically divergent from neighboring collections. Like yellowtail rockfish, oceanographic dispersal barriers and northern range expansion were inferred to influence black rockfish, however, unlike yellowtail rockfish, Cape Mendocino did not split the range into two stocks and was therefore inferred to be a less severe barrier. We hypothesize a higher frequency of extinction/recolonization events in black rockfish populations may have led to more complex genetic structure.
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