A total of 48 female spirlins Alburnoides sp. from the Kesselian stream (South Caspian Sea basin, northern Iran)were examined during a period from July 2008 to June 2009 to obtain data on fecundity, and to determine the spawning season of this carp...

was adopted to analyze possible spirlin population differences at

selected centers in the south Caspian Sea basin of Iran.

Methods: The phylogenetic relationships were determined based on 774 base pairs of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene of...