The Population Genetics Group

The population genetics group of the Danish Institute for Fisheries Research was established in 1994. At present, it includes three scientists, three technicians and a variable number of guest scientists, M.Sc. and Ph.D. students. The group's research interests focus on questions in the areas of population genetics and genomics, evolutionary biology and conservation biology. The group works on a number of different topics.

• Evolutionary dynamics, genetic population structure and phylogeography of freshwater and marine fish species.
• Local adaptation in populations of freshwater and marine fishes, addressed using quantitative genetics, molecular genetics and genomics approaches.
• Landscape genetics- analysing how environmental factors determine the genetic structure of populations.
• Conservation biology, in particular genetic interactions between wild and domesticated fish and estimation of effective population size.
• Long-term genetic composition of populations, based on analysis of historical samples (old scale samples).
• Mixed-stock analysis/genetic stock identification of commercially important marine and anadromous migratory fish.
• Behavioral ecology.

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For further information please contact the group staff.