Monitoring reveals two genetically distinct brown trout populations remaining in stable sympatry over 20 years in tiny mountain lakes

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 795-808

  Palmé, Anna ^a,b   Laikre, Linda ^a   Ryman, Nils ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SwAM)   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Conservation; Cryptic populations; Genetic monitoring; Heterozygote deficiency; Salmonids; Temporal genetics

Indexed keywords

CRYPSIS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FISH; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MOUNTAIN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPATRY;

SWEDEN;

SALMO TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 84879843876     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-013-0475-x     Document Type: Article

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