Population genetic structure of North American burbot (Lota lota maculosa) across the Nearctic and at its contact zone with Eurasian burbot (Lota lota lota)

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
• Main Authors: Elmer, Kathryn R., Van Houdt, Jeroen K.J., Meyer, Axel, Volckaert, Filip A.M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2008
• Subjects: Great Slave Lake; Lake Laberge; Yukon; Burbot; Lota lota; Alaska; lota
• Online Access: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/99136/

The burbot, Lota lota (Teleostei: Gadidae), has a holarctic distribution, with one subspecies (Lota lota lota) living in the lakes and rivers of the Palaearctic and northwestern North America and the other (Lota lota maculosa) living in the Nearctic (except the northwest). We analysed nine microsate...