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Geographical variation of Balanus improvisus in biochemical and morphometric characters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Eeva R. Furman
Eeva R. Furman
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School of Ocean Sciences, Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Gwynedd, LL59 5EH
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Samples of Balanus improvisus were collected from 15 sites in the Baltic, the west coast of Sweden, the British Isles and North America. They were analysed with horizontal starch gel electrophoresis for 11 loci and with opercular plate morphometry for 10 metrical characters. Analyses of isozyme patterns revealed a high degree of genetic similarity amongst populations. The Baltic sites, however, showed less heterozygote deficiency than the British and American sites indicating higher stability and outcrossing in the Baltic. Morphometric characters showed somewhat more heterogeneity than isozymes. The Baltic was relatively more homogeneous by morphometrical characters than by isozymes compared with the other areas. Both analyses separated to some extent the three geographical regions from each other and clustered sites by salinity. Individuals at low salinity had relatively small opercular openings compared to individuals from high salinity.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 70 , Issue 4 , November 1990 , pp. 721 - 740
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1990

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