Assessment of Stocking Activities on the Native Brown Trout Populations from Nestos River (Southern Balkans) Inferred by mtDNA RFLP and Sequencing Analyses
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results and Discussion
Author Contributions
Funding
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Data Availability Statement
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Code | Sampling Location in the Greek Territory | Number of Samples | Sampling Time |
---|---|---|---|
ΜOU | Mousda stream | 9 | July 2008 |
VATH1.1 | Vathyrema (Kalikarpo) | 5 | May 2007 |
VATH1.2 | Vathyrema (Kalikarpo) | 3 | September 2008 |
VATH1.3 | Vathyrema (Kalikarpo) | 5 | June 2012 |
VATH1.4 | Vathyrema (Kalikarpo) | 3 | March 2014 |
VATH2 | Vathyrema (Elatia forest) | 7 | July 2013 |
DIAV | Diavolorema | 6 | June 2012 |
ARK1 | Arkoudorema-Drama1 | 11 | June 2012 |
ARK2 | Arkoudorema-Drama2 | 6 | June 2014 |
FAR | Farasino | 11 | June 2012 |
Total | 66 |
AluI | HaeIII | ||
---|---|---|---|
A | B | A | B |
1090 | 870 | ||
940 | 710 | 710 | |
490 | 490 | 580 | |
280 | 280 | 570 | 570 |
250 | 250 | 290 | |
230 | 230 | 170 | 170 |
150 | 130 | 130 |
Composite Genotype | Sample | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MOU | VATH1.1 | VATH1.2 | VATH1.3 | VATH1.4 | VATH2 | ARK1 | ARK2 | DIAV | FAR | |
AA | 1/5 | 1/3 | 7/7 | 3/11 | 6/6 | 6/6 | 11/11 | |||
BB | 9/9 | 5/5 | 3/3 | 4/5 | 2/3 | 8/11 |
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Giantsis, I.A.; Sapounidis, A.; Koutrakis, E.; Apostolidis, A.P. Assessment of Stocking Activities on the Native Brown Trout Populations from Nestos River (Southern Balkans) Inferred by mtDNA RFLP and Sequencing Analyses. Appl. Sci. 2021, 11, 9034. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11199034
Giantsis IA, Sapounidis A, Koutrakis E, Apostolidis AP. Assessment of Stocking Activities on the Native Brown Trout Populations from Nestos River (Southern Balkans) Inferred by mtDNA RFLP and Sequencing Analyses. Applied Sciences. 2021; 11(19):9034. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11199034
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiantsis, Ioannis A., Argyrios Sapounidis, Emmanouil Koutrakis, and Apostolos P. Apostolidis. 2021. "Assessment of Stocking Activities on the Native Brown Trout Populations from Nestos River (Southern Balkans) Inferred by mtDNA RFLP and Sequencing Analyses" Applied Sciences 11, no. 19: 9034. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11199034
APA StyleGiantsis, I. A., Sapounidis, A., Koutrakis, E., & Apostolidis, A. P. (2021). Assessment of Stocking Activities on the Native Brown Trout Populations from Nestos River (Southern Balkans) Inferred by mtDNA RFLP and Sequencing Analyses. Applied Sciences, 11(19), 9034. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11199034