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Notes: Natural Hybridization of White Bass with Yellow Bass in Texas
Author(s) -
Fries L. T.,
Harvey W. D.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
transactions of the american fisheries society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.696
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1548-8659
pISSN - 0002-8487
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8659(1989)118<0087:nnhowb>2.3.co;2
Subject(s) - morone , bass (fish) , introgression , biology , fishery , morone saxatilis , hybrid , zoology , botany , biochemistry , gene
Abstract Isoelectric focusing of diagnostic proteins documented natural hybridization of white bass Morone chrysops with striped bass M. saxatilis in four Texas reservoirs. The occurrence of these hybrids suggests that the threat of introgression within the genus Morone may be greater than previously thought.