@article{3785,
  abstract     = {Most fisheries involving spiny lobsters of the genus Palinurus have been over exploited during the last decades, so there is a raising concern about management decisions for these valuable resources. A total of 13 microsatellite DNA loci recently developed in Palinurus elephas were  assayed  in  order  to  assess  genetic  diversity  levels  in  every  known  species  of  the  genus.  Microsatellite  markers  gave amplifications  and  showed  polymorphism  in  all  species,  with  gene  diversity  values  varying  from  0.65060.077  SD  (Palinurus barbarae) to 0.79260.051 SD (Palinurus elephas). Most importantly, when depth distribution was taken into account, shallower waters pecies consistently showed larger historical effective population sizes than their deeper-water counterparts.  This could explain why deeper-water species are more sensitive to overfishing, and would indicate that overexploitation may have a larger impact on their long-term genetic diversity.},
  author       = {Palero, Ferran and Abello, Pere and Macpherson, E. and Matthee, C. and Pascual, Marta},
  issn         = {1937-240X},
  journal      = {Journal of Crustacean Biology},
  number       = {4},
  pages        = {658 -- 663},
  publisher    = {Oxford University Press},
  title        = {{Genetic diversity levels in fishery-exploited spiny lobsters of the Genus Palinurus (Decapoda: Achelata)}},
  doi          = {10.1651/09-3192.1},
  volume       = {30},
  year         = {2010},
}