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https://doi.org/10.5513/JCEA01/21.4.2989
Genotyping of invasive Ponto-Caspian gobies in Croatia
Goran JAKŠIĆ JAKŠIĆ
; AQUATIKA – Freshwater Aquarium Karlovac, Branka Čavlovića Čavleka 1a, 47000 Karlovac, Croatia
Margita JADAN
; Division of materials chemistry, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička 54, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Adrian C. PINDER
; Bournemouth University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Fern Barrow, Poole, Dorset, BH12 5BB, UK
Tea TOMLJANOVIĆ
; University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Fisheries, Apiculture, Wildlife management and Special Zoology, Svetošimunska cesta 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Davor ZANELLA
; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Rooseveltov trg 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Tomislav TREER
; 4 University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Fisheries, Apiculture, Wildlife management and Special Zoology, Svetošimunska cesta 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Marina PIRIA
; University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Fisheries, Apiculture, Wildlife management and Special Zoology, Svetošimunska cesta 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The biology and ecology of non-native freshwater Ponto-Caspian (P-C) gobies: monkey goby, Neogobius fluviatilis (Pallas, 1814), round goby, Neogobius melanostomus (Pallas, 1814) and bighead goby, Ponticola kessleri (Günther, 1861) have been studied in Croatia, but the genetic structure of populations in the Sava River catchment remains unknown. Only a single mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b haplotype, consistent with native Black Sea populations, has been detected within Croatian populations. Based on emerging molecular evidence, the invasive potential (e.g. upstream migration and
environmental plasticity) of individual non-native gobies within the Sava River catchment, may be influenced by genetic structuring.
Keywords
monkey goby; round goby; bighead goby; haplotype; non-native
Hrčak ID:
248378
URI
Publication date:
21.12.2020.
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