Effects of current systems in the North Atlantic Ocean and Norwegian Sea

Microsatellite primers for C. finmarchicus will be developed and used to analyse levels and patterns of diversity within and between samples.

The data obtained will be used to establish the presence of sub-populations of the species together with associated gene flow and will be interpreted in relation to the current structure of the area using historical data and, if possible, data to be generated elsewhere in the MarProd programme. Complementary data will be obtained from a limited number of winter samples and from a time series of samples from the eastern American seaboard.