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Ellen M Weise1, Mallory Van Wyngaarden2,3, Cornelia Den Heyer4
1Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, 1355 Oxford St, B3H 4R2, Halifax, NS, Canada. emweise@dal.ca.
Abstract:
The ability to identify sex is necessary in population biology for a proper understanding of the dynamics of a population. In Atlantic halibut, phenotypic sex identification is not possible due to the lack of significant external morphological differences. We developed an Illumina SNP panel for Atlantic halibut with 4000 SNPs spread evenly throughout the genome with a minor allele frequency MAF ≥ 0.4, except for N = 249 SNPs located in a sex-determining region on chromosome 12, N = 176 of these SNPs were selected to genetically identify male and female individuals using a DAPC analysis. The genomic identification of sex allows for non-lethal sex determination and validation of sex identification in the field. The SNP panel is a new genomic resource for Atlantic halibut that will make it possible to generate the genotypic data for the large number of individuals needed to estimate population abundance using genomics and the Close Kin Mark Recapture (CKMR) approach, an emerging component of fisheries management and stock monitoring.
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