ABSTRACT
From a geneticist’s perspective, L. calcarifer is an interesting fi sh species to study due to its euryhaline, protandrous life-strategy, broad tropical geographic distribution, mass-spawning reproductive behaviour and economic importance to communities denizen to the area it naturally inhabits. The species is commercially exploited, both via wild fi shery captures and through industrialized farming, and is also becoming a model tropical fi sh species for understanding the impacts of future climate change. As a result, various aspects of the genetics of this species have received considerable attention, both towards using genetic approaches to understand population structure, diversity and genetic connectivity for fi shery management purposes, through to deciphering the genome and mapping of genes infl uencing traits of commercial importance to assist future aquaculture breeding programs.
