Relationships among tributary length, census population size, and genetic variability of white-spotted charr, Salvelinus leucomaenis, in the Lake Biwa [Japan] water system
2009
Kikko, T.(Shiga-ken. Fisheries Experiment Station, Hikone (Japan)) | Kai, Y. | Nakayama, K.
The relationships between census population size and tributary length and between haplotype diversity of the mitochondrial DNA and census population size in ten white-spotted charr populations in the Lake Biwa water system and its adjacent basins were investigated. The census population size (number of fish with =100 mm in standard length) significantly increased with the tributary length. In the eastern part of the Lake Biwa water system, haplotype diversity increased with the census population size. On other hand, in the western part of the water system and adjacent basins, haplotype diversity was zero irrespective of the census population size. These results suggest that white-spotted charr populations in the eastern and western part of the Lake Biwa water system have undergone different levels of bottlenecks related to the habitat size in the postglacial warming.
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