Microsatellite variation reveals weak genetic structure and retention of genetic variability in threatened Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) within a Snake River watershed

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 133-147

  Neville, Helen ^a,b   Isaak, Daniel ^b   Thurow, Russell ^b   Dunham, Jason ^b,c   Rieman, Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b Rocky Mountain Research Station   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottlenecks; Chinook salmon; Fine scale genetic structure; Genetic diversity; Oncorhynchus tshawytscha

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SALMONID; WATERSHED;

NORTH AMERICA; SNAKE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA;

EID: 33845921238     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-006-9155-4     Document Type: Article

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