Evolutionary history of the European whitefish Coregonus lavaretus (L.) species complex as inferred from mtDNA phylogeography and gill-raker numbers

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 4371-4387

  Ostbye K ^a,b,e   Bernatchez, L ^c   Naesje T F ^a   Himberg, K J M ^d   Hindar, K ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Glacial refugia; Ice age; Mismatch distribution; Natural selection; Nested clade analysis

Indexed keywords

COREGONUS LAVARETUS;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GILL; HAPLOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SALMONID; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GEOGRAPHY; GILLS; HAPLOTYPES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SALMONIDAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 33746738855     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02737.x     Document Type: Article

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