Genetic Population Structure and Mixed-Stock Analysis of Walleyes in the Lake Erie–Lake Huron Corridor using Allozyme and Mitochondrial DNA Markers

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1055-1067

  McParland, Tara L ^a,c   Ferguson, Moira M ^a   Liskauskas, Arunas P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ALLOENZYME; FISHERY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC MARKER; HAPLOTYPE; LAKE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MIXED STOCK ANALYSIS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STIZOSTEDION VITREUM;

GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION GENETICS; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

GREAT LAKES; LAKE ERIE-LAKE HURON CORRIDOR; NORTH AMERICA;

PERCIFORMES; STIZOSTEDION VITREUM;

EID: 0033379176     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1999)128<1055:GPSAMS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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