Who's your mama? Riverine hybridisation of threatened freshwater Trout Cod and Murray Cod.

ABSTRACT: Rates of hybridization and introgression are increasing dramatically worldwide because of translocations, restocking of organisms and habitat modifications; thus, determining whether hybridization is occuring after reintroducing extirpated congeneric species is commensurately important for conservation. Restocking programs are sometimes criticized because of the genetic consequences of hatchery-bred fish breeding with wild populations. These concerns are important to conservation restocking programs, including those from the Australian freshwater fish family, Percichthyidae. Two of the better known Australian Percichthyidae are the Murray Cod, Maccullochella peelii and Trout Cod, Maccullochella macquariensis which were formerly widespread over the Murray Darling Basin. In muc

SUBMITTER: Couch AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5088581 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature