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, Fuentes Pardo, Angela P., Rochus, Christina Marie, Enbody, Erik D., Bi, Huijuan, Vainola, Risto, Andersson, Leif
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för medicinsk biokemi och mikrobiologi 2023
• Subjects: gene-flow; Atlantic herring; Pacific herring; hybridization; subarctic; Evolutionary Biology; Evolutionsbiologi; Balsfjord; Norway; Pacific; Northern Norway; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-503192; https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad069

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...