Mitochondrial and microsatellite DNA diversity throughout the range of a cold adapted freshwater salmonid : phylogeography, local population structure and conservation genetics of Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus) in North America

• Main Author: Stamford, Michael D.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: Arctic; Great Slave Lake; Liard; Northwest Territories; Stikine; Yukon; Arctic grayling; Liard River; Thymallus arcticus; Yukon river; Alaska; Beringia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12227

The distributions of most Holarctic freshwater fish species were severely altered and restricted during the many glaciation events that have occurred throughout the Pleistocene. Isolation of groups of fish into distinct glacial refugia provided the opportunity for genetic divergence during these per...