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What maintains the central North Pacific genetic discontinuity in Pacific herring?
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Liu Ming, Lin Longshan, Gao Tianxiang, Yanagimoto Takashi, Sakurai Yasunori, Grant W Stewart
Abstract excerpt
Pacific herring show an abrupt genetic discontinuity in the central North Pacific that represents secondary contact between refuge populations previously isolated during Pleistocene glaciations. Paradoxically, high levels of gene flow produce genetic homogeneity among ocean-type populations within each group. Here, we surveyed variability in mtDNA control-region sequences (463 bp) and nine microsatellite loci in...
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