Genetics of Subpolar Fish and Invertebrates Reprinted from ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY OF FISHES, 69:1-4, 2004 [Kõva köide]

Participants in the May 2002 symposium in Juneau, Alaska offer 38 articles on fisheries science and genetics, focusing on new research and technologies. Section topics include genetics of populations of freshwater, anadromous, and marine species and the methods of evaluation of those populations; genetic variability topics such as fitness, adaptation, phenotype and maintenance of variation; aquaculture genetics, including interactions of cultured and wild fish and applications; and new work in phylogenetics in sub-polar species. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Fisheries genetics researchers will find invaluable the thirty-eight peer-reviewed contributions in this book, presented at the 20th Lowell Wakefield Fisheries Symposium "Genetics of Subpolar Fish and Invertebrates," held in May 2002 in Juneau, Alaska. Looming over concerns of lost fisheries stocks and persistent erosion of genetic variability are predictions of global warming, which may further tax genetic resources. One consequence is an increased reliance on genetic applications to many aspects of fisheries management, aquaculture, and conservation. The contributions in this book are important to modern fisheries science and genetics, and illustrate the evolution of the field over the past decade. The improved technology provides tools to address increasingly complicated problems in traditional applications and ecological and behavioral studies. The union between molecular and quantitative genetics, where many of the major questions about population structure and evolution remain unanswered, will also benefit from the new technologies.