Isolation by distance within a river system: Genetic population structuring of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, in tributaries of the Varzuga River in northwest Russia

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 653-666

  Primmer, C R ^a,b   Veselov, A J ^c   Zubchenko, A ^d   Poututkin, A ^d   Bakhmet, I ^b,c   Koskinen, M T ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO)   (Russian Federation)

^e Finnzymes Oy   (Finland)

Author keywords

Genetic structure; Member vagrant hypothesis; metapopulation; microsatellites; spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

SALMO SALAR;

EID: 33644784686     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02844.x     Document Type: Article

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