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Invasion genetics of the Eurasian round goby in North America: tracing sources and spread patterns.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jan 2009
Brown Joshua E, Stepien Carol A
Abstract excerpt
The Eurasian round goby Neogobius melanostomus (Apollonia melanostoma) invaded the North American Great Lakes in 1990 through ballast water, spread rapidly, and now is widely distributed and moving through adjacent tributaries. We analyse its genetic diversity and divergence patterns among 25 North American (N = 744) and 22 Eurasian (N = 414) locations using mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b gene sequences and seven...
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