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New paper: burbot subspecies at the contact zone

In a recent collaboration with the First Nations Gwich'in Renewable Resources Board, research about local fisheries of the Far North: Hans Recknagel, Amy Amos & Kathryn R Elmer (2014) Morphological and ecological variation among populations and subspecies of Burbot ( Lota lota) from the Mackenzie River Delta, Canada . CFN 128 (4) The Mackenzie River Delta is a suture zone where many postglacial lineages come in contact as the Eurasian lineages reach east and south and North American lineages extended northward. We found considerable variability in ecological and morphological traits of burbot fishes in the region, and suggestion that that the different subspecies of burbot may exploit different niches. This is a new study following on earlier work that identified the first burbot subspecific contact zone and its asymmetric genetic admixture  based on population genetics. Quick dissemination of these findings were important because the Mackenzie River is under developme

Lord Kelvin Adam Smith funding awarded to Watson & Elmer!

Our interdisciplinary project “Convergence, connectivity, and continuity: Topological perspectives for mining novel biological information from ‘omics data” and super-candidate Mel Chen from Australia have been awarded a Lord Kelvin Adam Smith PhD Scholarship from the University of Glasgow! This research will bridge algebraic topology (L. Watson, Maths) and evolutionary biology (K. Elmer, IBAHCM). We look forward to welcoming Mel to Glasgow in the autumn.