Genetic variation in brown trout Salmo trutta across the Danube, Rhine, and Elbe headwaters: a failure of the phylogeographic paradigm?

Lerceteau-Köhler, Estelle; Schliewen, Ulrich; Kopun, Theodora; Weiss, Steven

doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-176

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Genetic variation in brown trout Salmo trutta across the Danube, Rhine, and Elbe headwaters: a failure of the phylogeographic paradigm?

Lerceteau-Köhler, Estelle; Schliewen, Ulrich; Kopun, Theodora; Weiss, Steven

Abstract

The peri-alpine distribution of relict populations of pure Danubian lineage brown trout implies that they colonized headwater river courses post-glacially ahead of the expansion of the Atlantic lineage. The recognition of natural as opposed to anthropogenic introgression of the Atlantic lineage into Danubian gene pools is of fundamental importance to management strategies.

Keywords

Paleo-hydrology; Phylogeography; Alpine; Austria; Bavaria; mtDNA; Microsatellites; LDH-C1; Stocking; Conservation; Paleo-hydrology; Phylogeography; Alpine; Austria; Bavaria; mtDNA; Microsatellites; LDH-C1; Stocking; Conservation

Published in

BMC Evolutionary Biology
2013, volume: 13, article number: 176
Publisher: BIOMED CENTRAL LTD

SLU Authors

Lerceteau-Köhler, Estelle
- Department of Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- University of Graz

UKÄ Subject classification

Biological Systematics
Evolutionary Biology
Fish and Aquacultural Science

Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-176

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/52653