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distribution of late larval and pelagic juvenile rockfish 

 and determined that pygmy rockfish were present on 

 average in deeper, colder water than that favored by 

 other rockfish species. This spatial separation of pelagic 

 juvenile pygmy rockfish and other Sebastes spp. may 

 explain the slower growth observed in pygmy rockfish. 



Acknowledgments 



We would like to thank the scientists and crew from 

 the Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) who 

 collected the samples aboard the NOAA RV David Starr 

 Jordan. We thank Geoff Moser and Bill Watson (NOAA, 

 SWFSC) for examining some of our pygmy rockfish 

 specimens. Reference sequences of Sebastes were gener- 

 ated and kindly provided by personnel at the Fisheries 

 Resources Division of the SWFSC, La Jolla, CA (R. D. 

 Vetter, A. Rocha-Olivares, B. J. Eitner, C. A. Kimbrell, 

 and C. Taylor). In addition, we thank Mary Yoklavich 

 for all her valuable comments and all the reviewers who 

 contributed to this manuscript. 



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