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Consequences of the founder effect in the genetic structure of introduced island coral reef fish populations
Authors:S Planes  G Lecaillon
Institution:Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes—URA CMRS 1453, Laboratoire d'Ichtyoécologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne, Universitéde Perpignan, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France
Abstract:Between 1955 and 1961, the Division of Fish and Game of the State of Hawaii (USA) undertook an introduction program which brought 11 species of families Serranidae and Lutjanidae (Pisces) from French Polynesia to the coral reefs off Oahu and Big Island in Hawaii. Only three— Cephalopholis argus, Lutjanus fulvus and Lutjanus kasmira —for which we have records of locations and number offish released, are known to have become established. Comparison of allozyme distribution of C. argus and L. kasmira between individuals collected in Hawaiian and Polynesian populations provided a unique opportunity to estimate the impact of genetic drift and selection processes caused by a founder event. We used temporal variance of allelic frequencies to estimate and validate effective population size within marine fish populations. Despite the fact that only 571 C. argus and 2435 L. kasmira were released, we did not observe major changes in polymorphism and heterozygosity. Using different models to estimate effective population size from temporal variance in allelic frequencies and the number of generations, we estimate that the effective population size is about 1–5% of the total population size. Such reduced effective population size explains why most of the species introduced in Hawaii (8/11) failed to become established. Our results have implications for conservation biology because they emphasize that in spite of the fact that only a few individuals bequeathed their characteristics to subsequent generations, no significant change in genetic diversity was observed; success of introduced species is therefore limited by the number of fish released.
Keywords:genetic drift  effective size  conservation  introduction
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