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Two reproductive types of kokanee are found in Okanagan Lake, British Columbia: one form that spawns in streams, and another that spawns approximately 2–4 weeks later along beaches of the lake. We examined the levels and patterns of genetic and morphometric variation among three populations (1 beach and 2 stream populations) to better understand life history differentiation. We assayed allozyme variation at 74 loci and identified 15 P0.095 loci. Average FST was 0.041 among the three samples; the two stream-spawning populations grouped together in genetic distance analyses. We examined multivariate morphometric variation and fin size/shape variation using 35 truss characters. Populations did not sort morphologically by spawning type in principal component and relative warp analyses. Instead both analyses indicated that one stream-spawning population (Peachland Creek) was significantly more robust and had shallower caudal fins in comparison to the other samples. Second, clear multivariate shape differences between males and females were identified involving jaw size, mid-body dimensions, and caudal fin shape. A simple bivariate plot of tail `forkness' against fork length demonstrated that males had more forked tails and females had flattened tails. Level of differentiation of secondary sexual characteristics did not vary between the spawning types, although the beach-spawning population and one stream-spawning population did not show the strong, gender-discriminating variability in tail forkness. Although these two reproductive life history types of kokanee form discrete genetic groups, environmental differences are apparently insufficient to effect consistent differences in body shape, or fin size and shape between stream and beach-spawning morphs.
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Winans, G.A., Pollard, S. & Kuligowski, D.R. Two Reproductive Life History Types of Kokanee, Onchorynchus nerka, Exhibit Multivariate Morphometric and Protein Genetic Differentiation. Environmental Biology of Fishes 67, 87–100 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024401102141
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