ABSTRACT
Recent genetic studies have greatly advanced our knowledge on the genetic diversity of eels, population genetic structure, effective population size and possible evolutionary responses to anthropogenic environmental stress, among others. Traditionally, these topics had been addressed in the past by studying a very limited number of molecular and transcriptional markers, mainly due to the shortage of genomic sequence resources available for eels. For instance, only fi ve years ago, no genome sequencing had been conducted for any eel species and the number of sequences available in Genbank for the European eel consisted of only 121 expressed sequence tags (ESTs), 404 nucleotide sequences and 232 proteins. All this has changed recently due to the advances in the speed, cost and accuracy of next-generation sequencing (NGS) techniques that allow
1 Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, Bldg. 1540, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
