High incidence of Atlantic salmon × brown trout hybrids in a Lake District stream |
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| Authors: | S E Hartley |
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| Institution: | Freshwater Biological Association and Department of Biological and Molecular Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, U.K. |
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| Abstract: | Hypervariable minisatellite DNA single-locus profiling and mitochondrial DNA analysis revealed that 18.48% of juvenile Atlantic salmon Salmo salar in Troutbeck, a stream in the R. Leven catchment of the English Lake District, were hybrids between Atlantic salmon and brown trout S. trutta , and that hybridization was bidirectional. |
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| Keywords: | Atlantic salmon brown trout hybrids minisatellite DNA single-locus probes mitochondrial DNA |
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