Genetic investigation of natural hybridization between rainbow and coastal cutthroat trout in the copper River Delta, Alaska

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 926-942

  Williams, Ian ^a   Reeves, Gordon H ^b   Graziano, Sara L ^c   Nielsen, Jennifer L ^c  

^a Pacific Northwest Research Station ^*  (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON ANCESTRY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HYBRID; HYBRIDIZATION; MATING BEHAVIOR; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SALMONID;

ALASKA; COPPER DELTA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII CLARKII; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 34547810467     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T06-214.1     Document Type: Article

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