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Morphological and genetic structuring in the Utah Lake sucker complex.
Molecular ecology - 1 Dec 2008
Cole D D, Mock K E, Cardall B L, Crowl T A
Abstract excerpt
Population decline in the federally endangered June sucker (Chasmistes liorus), a lakesucker unique to Utah Lake, Utah, has been attributed in part to hybridization with the more widespread Utah sucker (Catostomus ardens). As a group, suckers in Utah Lake exhibit considerable external morphological variation. Meristic and morphological ambiguities, presumably the result of hybridization, create a continuum of...
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