Genes, Vol. 12, Pages 303: Waves Out of the Korean Peninsula and Inter- and Intra-Species Replacements in Freshwater Fishes in Japan

In this study, we analyzed the phylogeography of four freshwater fish taxa, Hemibarbus longirostris, dark chub Nipponocypris temminckii, Tanakia ssp. and Carassius ssp., whose distributions include both the Korean Peninsula and Western Japan. We found for each taxon that a small component of diverse Korean clades of freshwater fishes migrated in waves into the Japanese archipelago to form the current phylogeographic structure of biota. The replacements of indigenous populations by succeeding migrants may have also influenced the phylogeography.

Source: Genes - February 21, 2021 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Shoji Taniguchi Johanna Bertl Andreas Futschik Hirohisa Kishino Toshio Okazaki Tags: Article Source Type: research