Evidence supporting the paraphyly of Hucho (Salmonidae) based on ribosomal DNA restriction maps |
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| Authors: | R B Phillips T H Oakley E L Davis |
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| Institution: | Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | Relationships among the less derived genera in the subfamily Salmoninae were investigated by phylogenetic analysis of data from restriction maps of the ribosomal DNA using Osmerus mordax (rainbow smelt), Coregonus hoyi (bloater), and Thymattus arcticus (Arctic grayling) as outgroups. Analysis of the results suggests that Hucho h. taimen is more closely related to Brachymystax lenok (lenok) than to Hucho perryi (Sakhalin taimen) and that B. lenok and Hucho h. taimen (Eurasian taimen) form the most ancestral clade of the Salmoninae. |
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| Keywords: | DNA rDNA salmonid fish phylogeny |
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