Table 2.

Sample information and descriptive genetic statistics for cod adult spawning samples and juvenile aggregations

Sample	Location	Stage	Date	Lat	Long	N	He(8)	Ho(8)	Na(8)	Ho(12)	He(12)	Na(12)
KA00a	Kattegat	Adult	Jan-Feb 2000	56.90	11.90	77	0.78	0.77	15.6	0.75	0.74	14.3
OR00a	Öresund	Adult	Feb-Mar 2000	55.80	12.83	99	0.76	0.75	15.9	0.75	0.75	14.7
OR03	Öresund	Adult	Mar 2003	55.95	12.70	85	0.77	0.74	16.5
KA01a	Kattegat	Adult	Jan-Feb 2001	56.50	12.27	58	0.77	0.75	13.6	0.75	0.73	12.9
KA04aa	Kattegat	Adult	Feb 2004	56.20	12.37	41	0.77	0.78	13.9	0.75	0.75	12.6
KA04ba	Kattegat	Adult	Feb 2004	56.30	12.32	60	0.76	0.76	14.4	0.75	0.75	13.4
KA04ca	Kattegat	Adult	Feb 2004	56.90	12.15	100	0.75	0.73	15.9	0.73	0.72	14.6
SK00b	W Skagerrak	Adult	Feb 2000	57.70	9.78	31	0.76	0.68	11.5	0.74	0.69	10.8
SK01b	W Skagerrak	Adult	Feb 2001	57.70	9.78	70	0.78	0.75	15.3	0.77	0.76	14.5
NS02b	North Sea	Adult	Mar 2002	55.57	5.85	100	0.77	0.75	16.5	0.76	0.75	15.8
SKJ05a	E Skagerrak	Juvenile	Jun 2005	59.14	10.80	92	0.77	0.77	17.1
SKJ05b	E Skagerrak	Juvenile	Jun 2005	58.35	11.42	90	0.77	0.76	17.8
SKJ05c	E Skagerrak	Juvenile	Jun 2005	58.28	11.54	94	0.76	0.74	16.6
SKJ11	Skagerrak	Juvenile	Aug 2011	58.25	10.49	166	0.76	0.71	18.3
KAJ11	Kattegat	Juvenile	Aug 2011	56.63	11.59	167	0.76	0.74	18.9

Adult samples and juvenile 2011 samples were collected by trawling, and juvenile 2005 samples by beach seine

H _e average expected heterozygosity, H _o average observed heterozygosity, N _a average number of alleles for (8) and (12) microsatellite loci

^aPooled reference sample “Kattegat”

^bPooled reference sample “North Sea/W Skagerrak”