Asymmetric admixture and morphological variability at a suture zone: parapatric burbot subspecies (Pisces) in the Mackenzie River basin, Canada

• Published in: Hydrobiologia
• Main Authors: Elmer, Kathryn R., Recknagel, Hans, Thompson, Amy, Meyer, Axel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer Netherlands 2012
• Subjects: Canada; Great Slave Lake; Mackenzie River; Burbot; Lota lota; Mackenzie river; lota
• Online Access: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/99128/

The burbot (Lota lota L.) is a northern freshwater fish with a circumpolar distribution. Two subspecies diverged due to isolation during glacial maxima: Lota lota lota is the Eurasian-Beringian subspecies and Lota lota maculosa the North American subspecies. We sampled burbot from the Great Slave La...