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Multiple ice-age refugia in Pacific cod, Gadus macrocephalus.
Molecular ecology - 1 Oct 2010
Canino Michael F, Spies Ingrid B, Cunningham Kathryn M, Hauser Lorenz, Grant W Stewart
Abstract excerpt
Pleistocene ice-ages greatly influenced the historical abundances of Pacific cod, Gadus macrocephalus, in the North Pacific and its marginal seas. We surveyed genetic variation at 11 microsatellite loci and mitochondrial (mt) DNA in samples from twelve locations from the Sea of Japan to Washington State. Both microsatellite (mean H = 0.868) and mtDNA haplotype (mean h = 0.958) diversities were large and did not...
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