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Daniel Meneguello Limeira1, Mateus Henrique Santos2, Rogério Pincela Mateus3
1Instituto Federal do Paraná, Londrina, PR, Brazil.
Abstract:
Recently renamed, Psalidodon scabripinnis populations of Serra da Mantiqueira, previously known as Astyanax scabripinnis have been deeply studied in the last years. These populations are small and isolated and occur very close to the watershed between Paraíba do Sul River basin and Upper Paraná River basin, in Serra da Mantiqueira region in the Atlantic Rainforest. These conditions arouse the interest in knowing theor genetic conservation status and how they responded to the separation between the two rivers basins. Therefore, we accessed the genetic diversity of five P. scabripinnis populations of this region with microsatellites and mitochondrial data. The results showed a complex structure pattern that doesn't match the simple basin separation and a reasonably conservation status when compared with other populations of the same family or with similar natural history.
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