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Spatial segregation of cisco (Coregonus artedi) and lake whitefish (C. clupeaformis) larvae in Chaumont Bay, Lake Ontario
- Source :
- Journal of Great Lakes Research. 46:1485-1490
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- Two of the remaining coregonine species in Lake Ontario, cisco (Coregonus artedi) and lake whitefish (C. clupeaformis), spawn in Chaumont Bay, New York. Larvae co-occur in the spring but are difficult to distinguish morphologically. We applied genetic species identification using microsatellite DNA loci of 268 larvae from known locations in nearshore and offshore habitats in Chaumont Bay to determine the extent of mixing of these species in each habitat. Cisco dominated the larvae (95%) in offshore habitats and lake whitefish dominated (84%) in nearshore habitats, where seven of eight putative hybrids occurred. Habitat segregation between these two species at the larval stage has implications for productivity estimates, as changing environmental conditions may differentially affect shallow and deep waters, larval survival, and possibly subsequent recruitment. Discrimination between cisco and lake whitefish larvae will help to characterize habitat and basic life history needs and to focus research collections. Genetic species identification should be applied to larger samples of larvae to evaluate changes in larval distributions and associations with environmental conditions.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Larva
Spatial segregation
Ecology
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
fungi
010501 environmental sciences
Aquatic Science
Biology
biology.organism_classification
01 natural sciences
Spawn (biology)
Habitat
parasitic diseases
Life history
Coregonus
Bay
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Hybrid
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 03801330
- Volume :
- 46
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Great Lakes Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........5bc3f86a3de5d0b217b6c20b98a76764