A Long-Standing Hybrid Population Between Pacific and Atlantic Herring in a Subarctic Fjord of Norway

• Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Pettersson, Mats E., Fuentes-Pardo, Angela P., Rochus, Christina M., Enbody, Erik D., Bi, Huijuan, Väinölä, Risto, Andersson, Leif
• Other Authors: Zoology, Risto Väinölä / Principal Investigator
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2023
• Subjects: Atlantic herring; Pacific herring; Gene-flow; Hybridization; Subarctic; 1181 Ecology; evolutionary biology; 1184 Genetics; developmental biology; physiology; Pacific; Norway; Balsfjord; Northern Norway
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/359488

Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) and Pacific herring (C. pallasii) are sister species that split from a common ancestor about 2 million years ago. Balsfjord, a subarctic fjord in Northern Norway, harbors an outpost population of Pacific herring within the range of the Atlantic herring. We used who...