Mitochondrial DNA Analysis Indicates Sea Lampreys Are Indigenous to Lake Ontario
| Autor: | Nirmal K. Roy, Cheryl Grunwald, Isaac Wirgin, John R. Waldman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Mitochondrial DNA
geography Watershed geography.geographical_feature_category biology Ecology Lamprey Introduced species Aquatic Science biology.organism_classification Invasive species Indigenous Fishery Petromyzon parasitic diseases Tributary human activities Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics |
| Zdroj: | Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 133:950-960 |
| ISSN: | 1548-8659 0002-8487 |
| Popis: | The parasitic sea lamprey Petromyzon marinus occurs throughout North America's Great Lakes, where it has an immense economic impact on commercially and recreationally important fishes. Sea lampreys indisputably invaded Lake Erie and the upper Great Lakes from Lake Ontario in the mid-1900s, but their official status as a nonnative species in Lake Ontario is based on circumstantial evidence and has long been subject to controversy. Presently, sea lampreys are considered by U.S. and Canadian government agencies to be an invasive species within the entire Great Lakes watershed, and millions of dollars are spent annually to suppress them. We sequenced 330 base pairs of the mitochondrial DNA control region of 224 sea lampreys collected from 10 locations (3 within the Lake Ontario drainage, 2 within the Lake Superior drainage, and 5 rivers between Quebec and New York that are tributary to the Atlantic Ocean). Eighteen haplotypes were revealed, of which 17 occurred in specimens from Atlantic coast rivers... |
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