--- _id: '3395' abstract: - lang: eng text: Defining population structure and genetic diversity levels is of the utmost importance for developing efficient conservation strategies. Overfishing has caused mean annual catches of the European spiny lobster (Palinurus elephas) to decrease alarmingly along its distribution area. In this context, there is a need for comprehensive studies aiming to evaluate the genetic health of the exploited populations. The present study is based on a set of ten nuclear markers amplified in 331 individuals from ten different localities covering most of P. elephas distribution area. Samples from Atlantic and Mediterranean basins showed small but significant differences, indicating that P. elephas populations do not behave as a single panmictic unit but form two partially-overlapping groups. Despite intense overfishing, our dataset did not recover a recent bottleneck signal, and instead showed a large and stable historical effective size. This result could be accounted for by specific life-history traits (reproduction and longevity) and the limitations of molecular markers in covering recent timescales for nontemporal samples. The findings of the present study emphasize the need to integrate information on effective population sizes and life-history parameters when evaluating population connectivity levels from genetic data. acknowledgement: This work was supported by a pre-doctoral fellowship awarded by the Autonomous Government of Catalonia to F.P. (2006FIC-00082). Research was funded by projects FBBVA-BIOCON 08-187/09, CGL2006-13423, and CTM2007-66635. The authors are part of the research group 2009SGR-636, 2009SGR-655, and 2009SGR-1364 of the Generalitat de Catalunya. F.P. acknowledges EU-Synthesys grant (GB-TAF-4474). article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Ferran full_name: Palero, Ferran id: 3F0E2A22-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Palero orcid: 0000-0002-0343-8329 - first_name: Pere full_name: Abello, Pere last_name: Abello - first_name: Enrique full_name: Macpherson, Enrique last_name: Macpherson - first_name: Mark full_name: Beaumont, Mark last_name: Beaumont - first_name: Marta full_name: Pascual, Marta last_name: Pascual citation: ama: Palero F, Abello P, Macpherson E, Beaumont M, Pascual M. Effect of oceanographic barriers and overfishing on the population genetic structure of the European spiny lobster Palinurus elephas. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2011;104(2):407-418. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01728.x apa: Palero, F., Abello, P., Macpherson, E., Beaumont, M., & Pascual, M. (2011). Effect of oceanographic barriers and overfishing on the population genetic structure of the European spiny lobster Palinurus elephas. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01728.x chicago: Palero, Ferran, Pere Abello, Enrique Macpherson, Mark Beaumont, and Marta Pascual. “Effect of Oceanographic Barriers and Overfishing on the Population Genetic Structure of the European Spiny Lobster Palinurus Elephas.” Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01728.x. ieee: F. Palero, P. Abello, E. Macpherson, M. Beaumont, and M. Pascual, “Effect of oceanographic barriers and overfishing on the population genetic structure of the European spiny lobster Palinurus elephas,” Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 104, no. 2. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 407–418, 2011. ista: Palero F, Abello P, Macpherson E, Beaumont M, Pascual M. 2011. Effect of oceanographic barriers and overfishing on the population genetic structure of the European spiny lobster Palinurus elephas. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 104(2), 407–418. mla: Palero, Ferran, et al. “Effect of Oceanographic Barriers and Overfishing on the Population Genetic Structure of the European Spiny Lobster Palinurus Elephas.” Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 104, no. 2, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, pp. 407–18, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01728.x. short: F. Palero, P. Abello, E. Macpherson, M. Beaumont, M. Pascual, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 104 (2011) 407–418. date_created: 2018-12-11T12:03:06Z date_published: 2011-09-14T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-02-23T14:07:31Z day: '14' department: - _id: NiBa doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01728.x intvolume: ' 104' issue: '2' language: - iso: eng month: '09' oa_version: None page: 407 - 418 publication: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society publication_status: published publisher: Wiley-Blackwell publist_id: '3212' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '9762' relation: research_data status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Effect of oceanographic barriers and overfishing on the population genetic structure of the European spiny lobster Palinurus elephas type: journal_article user_id: 6785fbc1-c503-11eb-8a32-93094b40e1cf volume: 104 year: '2011' ...