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Phylogeography of northern Dolly Varden Salvelinus malma (Salmoniformes: Salmonidae) from Asia and North America: An analysis based on the mitochondrial DNA genealogy

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Spawning in habitats affected by Pleistocene glacial advances over most of its natural range, northern Dolly Varden Salvelinus malma malma typifies Arctic fauna distributed in northeastern Asia and northwestern North America. We reconstructed a genealogy of mtDNA haplotypes from 27 Alaskan and Asian populations to study the influence of historical events on the phylogeography and contemporary population genetic structure. Analysis of molecular variance partitioned most of the mtDNA variability to the intrapopulation component (72.5%) with much reduced differences between populations (21.1%) and regions (6.4%). Similar patterns of variation apparent from hierarchical diversity and nested clade phylogeographical analysis (NCPA) of mtDNA haplotypes identify weak spatial differentiation and low levels of divergence. These findings suggest (1) that demographic history has been influenced by historical range expansions and recent isolation by distance, (2) that present populations from Asia and North America were colonized from one main Beringian Refugium, and (3) that this taxon’s ancestral population probably experienced a bottleneck in the Beringian Refugium during the late Pleistocene (Wisconsin) glacial period. The genealogical and NCPA analyses, and mismatch distribution of S. m. malma mtDNA haplotypes do not confirm the assumptions about presence of the two refugia on the territories of the Beringian Land, in which allopatric S. m. malma ancestral populations evolved, and independent origin of the Sea of Okhotsk populations.

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    A. G. Oleinik, L. A. Skurikhina, E. I. Bondar & V. A. Brykov

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Oleinik, A.G., Skurikhina, L.A., Bondar, E.I. et al. Phylogeography of northern Dolly Varden Salvelinus malma (Salmoniformes: Salmonidae) from Asia and North America: An analysis based on the mitochondrial DNA genealogy. J. Ichthyol. 53, 820–832 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S003294521310007X

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