Acknowledgements
We thank the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund (Grant/Award
Number: 16-VUW-040), Genomics Aotearoa, and European Union’s Horizon
2020 4-OCEANS Synergy grant agreement no. 951649. Also, Ministry of
Primary Industries (MPI), the National Institute of Water and
Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Gisborne Tatapouri Sports Fishing Club,
Hawkes Bay Sports Fishing Club, Petone Working Man’s Club, and Leah Kemp
for providing samples or sampling opportunities for C. auratus .
Thank you to Ngāti Kuia, Ngāi Tai Ki Tāmaki, Ngāti Toa, and Ngāti Koata
for supporting this research.
Author
contributions
TO was responsible for the overall design of the study, sample
collection and DNA extraction of the samples, performing all analyses,
and the lead over the writing this manuscript. BS contributed by helping
with the overall design of this study and helped write the manuscript.
MW was responsible for funding acquisition, supervision, and provided
feedback on analyses and helped with the writing of the manuscript. PR
was responsible for funding acquisition, supervision, project
administration, contributed by helping with the overall design of this
study, and helped write the manuscript.
Data accessibility and
Benefit-Sharing
Illumina short-read data and associated metadata are deposited on the
Genomics Aotearoa repository (https://repo.data.nesi.org.nz/),
Repository ID: AGDR00033 (Te Aika et al., 2023). All scripts used in the
analyses are openly available on GitHub at
https://github.com/tomoosting (to
be made public at time of publication).
Conflict of
interests
Nothing to declare.