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Crossing the pond: genetic assignment detects lobster hybridisation.
Scientific reports - 8 May 2020
Ellis Charlie D, Jenkins Tom L, Svanberg Linda, Eriksson Susanne P, Stevens Jamie R
Abstract excerpt
American lobsters (Homarus americanus) imported live into Europe as a seafood commodity have occasionally been released or escaped into the wild, within the range of an allopatric congener, the European lobster (H. gammarus). In addition to disease and competition, introduced lobsters threaten native populations through hybridisation, but morphological discriminants used for species identification are unable to...
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