Life history differences between fat and lean morphs of lake charr (Salvelinus namaycush) in Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada

Hydrobiologia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 783 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Hansen ◽  
Nancy A. Nate ◽  
Louise Chavarie ◽  
Andrew M. Muir ◽  
Mara S. Zimmerman ◽  
...  
2007 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randy L. Eshenroder ◽  
E. Don Stevens ◽  
Mara S. Zimmerman ◽  
Charles C. Krueger

2018 ◽  
Vol 75 (7) ◽  
pp. 1070-1081 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin C. Kissinger ◽  
Les N. Harris ◽  
Danny Swainson ◽  
W. Gary Anderson ◽  
Margaret F. Docker ◽  
...  

Partial anadromy is common within salmonid populations, where resident and anadromous individuals interbreed and overlap in habitat use during portions of life. Deviation to this definition occurs within the Husky Lakes drainage basin (HLDB), Northwest Territories, where freshwater resident, semi-anadromous, and brackish-water resident lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) life history types are documented. In this study, microsatellite DNA variation was assayed to evaluate genetic structuring among life history types from the HLDB and adjacent lower Mackenzie River system. Significant differentiation was resolved among most locations and life histories (global FST = 0.192). Brackish-water residents were differentiated from all locations and life histories, including sympatric semi-anadromous individuals, providing evidence for genetically fixed strategies. Also, this provides the first evidence of breeding partial migration in salmonids using brackish-water environments, where brackish-water residents and semi-anadromous migrants interact during the nonbreeding season, but the latter migrate elsewhere to spawn. Alternatively, the lack of genetic differentiation between semi-anadromous and Sitidgi Lake residents suggests conditional mating tactics may also influence partial anadromy. This work provides novel insights into partial anadromy in Arctic salmonids and expands our knowledge of biodiversity in this region.


1975 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 404-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. C. Healey ◽  
C. W. Nicol

We found no significant differences in slope or intercept for the regression of loge fecundity on loge fork length among samples of whitefish from four lakes near Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories. The equation describing the relationship between fecundity and fork length for these populations was:[Formula: see text]Five other populations for which length–fecundity relationships could be calculated had length exponents ranging from 3.20 to 4.38, suggesting a nonlinear relationship between weight and fecundity. Six of the nine populations as well as four others for which limited data were available all had similar relative fecundities. Fish from Buck Lake in Alberta and from Lake Erie had high relative fecundities while fish from Great Slave Lake had low relative fecundity.


2009 ◽  
Vol 113 (4) ◽  
pp. 816-834 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen E.L. Howell ◽  
Laura C. Brown ◽  
Kyung-Kuk Kang ◽  
Claude R. Duguay

1979 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. N. Badham

Two alkaline igneous complexes and three lines of diatreme breccias were emplaced in the East Arm of Great Slave Lake during the lower Proterozoic. Field relationships suggest that those rocks are broadly cogenetic and were emplaced about 2.1 Ga ago.One of the intrusions, the Easter Island dyke, was rotated subsequent to emplacement such that both top and bottom are now exposed. Field and petrographic data are indicative of progressive differentiation along (i.e., up) the dyke and are substantiated by chemical data. The differentiation history of the early gabbros of the Blachford Lake complex is similar. Late differentiates of both complexes closely resemble the igneous matrices of the breccias and petrographic and chemical data support the proposal of cogenesis and contemporaneity.The field data show that there was a period of significant faulting and concomitant alkaline igneous activity in the East Arm area in the lower Proterozoic.


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