TY - JOUR T1 - Stock structure of the swordfish (Xiphias gladius) in the southwest Indian Ocean: A preliminary study A1 - Jean,Claire A1 - Bourjea,Jerome A1 - Jouen,Emmanuel A1 - Taquet,Marc AD - Ifremer, Le Port 97822, Reunion. AD - CIRAD, Ctr Rech & Cooperat Int Rech Agron Dev, Lab Pathol & Genet Mol, F-97410 St Pierre, Reunion. UR - https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/2313/ KW - Indian Ocean KW - microsatellite loci KW - mtDNA KW - Xiphias gladius KW - Swordfish N2 - Stock structure of swordfish (Xiphias gladius Linnaeus, 1758) from four areas of the South West Indian Ocean was conducted using Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) on mtDNA control region and six amplified microsatellite loci. No significant differences were found among the four locations using either molecular technique. Most variability was found within populations, with only a small proportion of variation among samples, suggesting a unique stock of swordfish in the South West Indian Ocean. The sample size of this study is too small to reveal significant structure among the sampling locations. These results are baseline for a future larger scale project in the whole Indian Ocean. Y1 - 2006/11 PB - University of Miami JF - Bulletin of Marine Science SN - 0007-4977 VL - 79 IS - 3 SP - 521 EP - 526 ID - 2313 ER -