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Watershed boundaries and geographic isolation: patterns of diversification in cutthroat trout from western North America.
BMC evolutionary biology - 19 Mar 2012
Loxterman Janet L, Keeley Ernest R
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BACKGROUND: For wide-ranging species, intraspecific variation can occur as a result of reproductive isolation from local adaptive differences or from physical barriers to movement. Cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii), a widely distributed fish species from North America, has been divided into numerous putative subspecies largely based on its isolation in different watersheds. In this study, we examined mtDNA...
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