Hybridization may drive rare taxa to extinction through genetic swamping, where the rare
form is replaced by hybrids, or by demographic swamping, where population growth rates …

Dams and other anthropogenic barriers have caused global ecological and hydrological
upheaval in the blink of the geological eye. In the present article, we synthesize 307 studies …

The area around the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan in the north-western North Pacific
provides opportunities for studying the impact of climate oscillations on the evolutionary …

Charrs (Salvelinus) reach their southernmost distribution in Japan, and are uniquely
adapted to the short, steep streams of this island archipelago. Southern Asian Dolly Varden …

Stream-dwelling white-spotted charr, Salvelinus leucomaenis, populations tend to have
unique color and spot patterns in different regions and may even display stream-specific …

Genetic diversity at a major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II B gene was examined
for two wild and three captive populations of the endangered Tokyo bitterling Tanakia …

The possible recovery of a white-spotted charr population in a small tributary of a river to
Lake Biwa, following removal of previously stocked red-spotted masu salmon, was …

The genetic structure of two fluvial forms of the red-spotted masu salmon, amago (ordinary
form) and iwame (markless form), collected from two headwater streams, the Kohbaru …

The white-spotted char Salvelinus leucomaenis is a salmonid inland water fishery species,
the abundance of which has decreased due to environmental changes and fishing pressure …

Tri‐and tetra‐motif repeat microsatellite marker loci were developed for the white‐spotted
charr Salvelinus leucomaenis. The 454 pyrosequencing was used to discover repeat arrays …