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spawning populations. (However, it is recognised, that particular mating strategies
may substantially decrease effective number of parents.) Most aquatic animals
(especially those of commercial fisheries and aquaculture interest) have very high
Fig. B.1 Automated sequencer polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis image of typical microsatellite locus from Atlantic salmon. Each individual fi sh is either homozygous or heterozygous for alleles ranging in size from 175 to 275 base pairs. Three identical size markers
are present at either end and in the middle of the gel
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spawning populations. (However, it is recognised, that particular mating strategies
may substantially decrease effective number of parents.) Most aquatic animals
(especially those of commercial fisheries and aquaculture interest) have very high
Fig. B.1 Automated sequencer polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis image of typical microsatellite locus from Atlantic salmon. Each individual fi sh is either homozygous or heterozygous for alleles ranging in size from 175 to 275 base pairs. Three identical size markers
are present at either end and in the middle of the gel