Introduction to genetics of subpolar fish and invertebrates

Introduction to a Special Section: Genetic Adaptation of Natural Salmonid Populations

“…Analyses of geographically and temporally broadened allozyme data sets and of subsequent compilations of population data for multiple DNA markers revealed increasingly finer details of structures and mixtures. An excellent view of the state of the science and the advancements that occurred in the 1990s may be found in the salmonid genetics papers in the published proceedings of the International Symposium on Genetics of Subarctic Fish and Shellfish held in Juneau, Alaska, in 1993 (Gharrett et al 1994) and its successor on the genetics of subpolar fish and invertebrates in 2002 (Gharrett et al 2004). The papers in those proceedings and more recent publications generally continue to support earlier biogeographical insights that include similarities among species as well as species-specific patterns of variation.…”