Asymmetric Hybridization and Introgression between Pink Salmon and Chinook Salmon in the Laurentian Great Lakes

• Main Authors: Rosenfield, Jonathan A., Todd, Thomas, Greil, Roger
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2000
• Subjects: Natural Resources and Environment; Science; Pacific; St. Marys River; Oncorhynchus gorbuscha; Pink salmon
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/142073; https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8659(2000)129<0670:AHAIBP>2.3.CO;2

Among Pacific salmon collected in the St. Marys River, five natural hybrids of pink salmon Oncorhynchus gorbuscha and chinook salmon O. tshawytscha and one suspected backcross have been detected using morphologic, meristic, and color evidence. One allozyme (LDH, l‐lactate dehydrogenase from muscle)...