European Lampreys: New Insights on Postglacial Colonization, Gene Flow and Speciation.

ABSTRACT: Ice ages are known to be the most dominant palaeoclimatic feature occurring on Earth, producing severe climatic oscillations and consequently shaping the distribution and the population structure of several species. Lampreys constitute excellent models to study the colonization of freshwater systems, as they commonly appear in pairs of closely related species of anadromous versus freshwater resident adults, thus having the ability to colonize new habitats, through the anadromous species, and establish freshwater resident derivates. We used 10 microsatellite loci to investigate the spatial structure, patterns of gene flow and migration routes of Lampetra populations in Europe. We sampled 11 populations including the migratory L. fluviatilis and four resident species, L. planeri, L. alavarie

SUBMITTER: Mateus CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4752455 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature