Article
Phylogeography of amphi-boreal fish: tracing the history of the Pacific herring Clupea pallasii in North-East European seas.
BMC evolutionary biology - 19 Mar 2013
Laakkonen Hanna M, Lajus Dmitry L, Strelkov Petr, Väinölä Risto
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The relationships between North Atlantic and North Pacific faunas through times have been controlled by the variation of hydrographic circumstances in the intervening Arctic Ocean and Bering Strait. We address the history of trans-Arctic connections in a clade of amphi-boreal pelagic fishes using genealogical information from mitochondrial DNA sequence data. The Pacific and Atlantic herrings (Clupea...
Topics
- Animals
- Cytochromes b
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Fishes
- Genetic Variation
- North Sea
- Phylogeography