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Narrow wrack is a type of bladderwrack found only in the Baltic Sea.
In the Bothnian Sea, wracks mostly reproduce asexually with clones, which over time depleats their genetic variation. The picture shows a cloned individual of narrow wrack, Fucus radicans, a type of bladderwrack found only in the Baltic Sea.
Photo: Lena Bergström
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Monitoring genetic diversity in aquatic environments

Research project
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Project owner
Department of Marine Sciences
Research partners
Linda Laikre, University of Stockholm
Financier
Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management - SWAM
Area
Sustainability and environment Science and Information Technology
Topic
Genetics Ecology Marine

Short description

The genetic variation within species enables them to adapt to changing environmental conditions and thus survive and remain in the long term. Only so can important ecosystem functions such as fish production be maintained. Today's environmental monitoring programs cover the development of many species but not their genetic variation.

As an assignment from the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SWAM) we develop genetic monitoring programs for a handful of marine and freshwater species.

The long term goal for this project is to establish a monitoring program for a number of key aquatic species present in Swedish waters.

Researchers

Kerstin Johannesson, Marine Sciences – Tjärnö, University of Gothenburg

Linda Laikre, Department of zoology at University of Stockholm

Ricardo Pereyra, Marine Sciences – Tjärnö, University of Gothenburg

More information

More information about the assignment can be found on the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management's Swedish webpage Övervakning av genetisk mångfald.

CeMEB, Centre for Marine Evolutionary Biology
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