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Hypothesis of Antimora spp. (Moridae) Dispersion in the World Oceans Based on Data on Modern Distribution, Genetic Analysis, and Ancient Records

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Based on the analysis of the current distribution, the results of the molecular genetic study into the diversity of the mtDNA region (the first subunit of the cytochrome c oxidase I gene (COI)) in the samples of the blue hake Antimora rostrata and the Pacific flatnose A. microlepis, and the generalization of literature data on fossil records of morids (Moridae), a scheme for hypothetical spreading of these species in the oceans is presented.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful to our multiple colleagues who provided data on catches, tissue samples, or frozen samples of Antimora spp. from various areas of the World Ocean: Gui Duhamel (Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris, France), Paulo Costa (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Michael Mincarone (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Macaé, Brazil), Yamandu Marin (Dirección Nacional de Recursos Acuáticos, Montevideo, Uruguay), Orio Yamamura (Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Japan), Yohji Narimatsu (Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, Miyazu, Japan), Gavin Hanke (Royal British Canada Museum, Victoria, Canada), Maria Surry (Pacific Biology Station, Nanaimo, Canada), Luis Abellan (Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Barcelona, Spain), Alistair Graham (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Hobart, Australia), Ingvar Byrkjedal (Zoological Museum of Bergen University, Bergen, Norway), Manuel Biscoito (Museu de História Natural do Funchal, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal), Lonny Lundsten (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, United States), Jeff Drazen (University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States), Able Bosman (Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa), Elaine Heemstra (Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Grahamstown, South Africa), Rob Leslie and Lavrika Singh (Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, South Africa), Santiago Barbini (Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Mar del Plata, Argentina), Atila Gosztonyi (Centro Nacional Patagonico, Puerto Madryn, Argentina), Stuart Hanchet (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand), Aleksei Baitalyuk, Pavel Kalchugin, and Igor Mal’tsev (Pacific Branch of VNIRO, Vladivostok, Russia), Rafael Bañon (Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas, Vigo, Spain), Guzman Diez (AZTI, Bizkaia, Spain), Cara Rodgveller (Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, United States), Peter Frey (Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, United States), Kathryn Temple (Pacific Biology Station, Nanaimo, Canada), Kim Sen Tok (Sakhalin Branch of VNIRO, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia), Alexander Arkhipkin (Falkland Islands Fisheries Department, Stanley, Falkland Islands), Graham Johnston (Marine Research Institute, Galway, Ireland), Peter McMillan (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand), and Evgeny Romanov (CAP RUN—ARDA, Reunion, France). Special thanks to the CCAMLR Secretariat (Hobart, Australia) for providing data on catches of the blue hake in the Southern Ocean as well as the Alaska Fisheries Science Center (Seattle, United States) and Northwest Fisheries Science Center (Seattle, United States) that posted publicly available data from scientific trawl surveys on their websites. We are also grateful to the Internet portals OBIS, FishBase, GBIF, and iSpecies for posting open-access databases on catches of various aquatic species. We also consider it our duty to thank Aleksandr Sytov (VNIRO, Moscow) for making the maps, Andrei Stroganov (Moscow State University, Moscow), and Mikhail Nazarkin (Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg) for critical reading of the manuscript and comments made.

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Orlov, A.M., Bannikov, A.F. & Orlova, S.Y. Hypothesis of Antimora spp. (Moridae) Dispersion in the World Oceans Based on Data on Modern Distribution, Genetic Analysis, and Ancient Records. J. Ichthyol. 60, 399–410 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945220030108

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