Phylogeography of amphi-boreal fish: tracing the history of the Pacific herring Clupea pallasii in North-East European seas

• Main Authors: Laakkonen, Hanna M, Lajus, Dmitry L, Strelkov, Petr, Väinölä, Risto
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central Ltd. 2013
• Subjects: Phylogeography; Amphi-boreal fauna; White Sea; Trans-Arctic colonization; mtDNA; Time-dependent rates; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Balsfjord; Bering Strait; Norwegian Sea; Pacific; North Atlantic; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/13/67

Abstract Background The relationships between North Atlantic and North Pacific faunas through times have been controlled by the variation of hydrographic circumstances in the intervening Arctic Ocean and Bering Strait. We address the history of trans-Arctic connections in a clade of amphi-boreal pel...