New insight into hybridization and unidirectional introgression between Ammodytes japonicus and Ammodytes heian (Trachiniformes, Ammodytidae)

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Kim, Jin-Koo, Bae, Seung Eun, Lee, Soo Jeong, Yoon, Moon Geun
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2017
• Subjects: Research Article; Heian; Okhotsk; Pacific; okhotsk sea
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5459329/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28582394; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178001

Based on northern (NOL) and southern (SOL) mitochondrial lineages, recently, it proposed the new species Ammodytes heian and revived the species name Ammodytes japonicus to describe sand lances from the northwestern Pacific Ocean. This study used molecular methods to investigate genetic relationship...