DNA and allozyme markers provide concordant estimates of population differentiation: analyses of U.S. and Canadian populations of Yukon River fall-run chum salmon ( Oncorhynchus keta )

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
• Main Authors: Scribner, Kim T, Crane, Penelope A, Spearman, William J, Seeb, Lisa W
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1998
• Subjects: Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Yukon; Canada; Keta; Yukon river; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f98-063; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f98-063

Although the number of genetic markers available for fisheries research has steadily increased in recent years, there is limited information on their relative utility. In this study, we compared the preformance of different "classes" of genetic markers (mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), nuclear D...