Signatures of Selection and Genomic Diversity of Muskellunge (Esox masquinongy) from Two Populations in North America.

ABSTRACT: Muskellunge (Esox masquinongy) is the largest and most prized game fish in North America. However, little is known about Muskellunge genetic diversity in Iowa's propagation program. We used Whole-Genome Sequencing of 12 brooding individuals from Iowa and publicly available RAD-seq of 625 individuals from the St. Lawrence River in Canada to study the genetic differences between populations, analyze signatures of selection, and evaluate the levels of genetic diversity in both populations. Given that there is no reference genome available, reads were aligned to the genome of Pike (Esox lucius). Variant calling produced 7,886,471 biallelic variants for the Iowa population and 16,867 high-quality SNPs that overlap with the Canadian samples. Principal component analysis (PCA) and A

SUBMITTER: Chinchilla-Vargas J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8303616 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature