Research Article

Comparative Study of Genome Divergence in Salmonids with Various Rates of Genetic Isolation

Table 3

The absolute values of genetic distances Nei between different forms of chars and the valid species.

Species and formsS. alpinus * S. leucomaenis * S. fontinalis S. namaycush

Genetic distances Nei × 10−2

S. alpinus*0.040.3543.041.6
S. alpinus (Tuulispaa Lake)25.841.648.142.1
S. alpinus Black char (Lama Lake)34.644.453.350.0
S. boganidae27.5538.3540.340.4
S. alpinus (Barents Sea basin)27.144.5550.046.1
S. alpinus Davatchan (Baikal Lake basin)33.446.3556.553.3
S. alpinus Mountain char (Lama Lake basin)34.1744.447.249.6
S. malma Predator (Kamchatka Peninsula)27.8540.141.936.4
S. alpinus Goggle-eyed (Lama Lake basin)34.74.946.448.8
S. neiva” Neiva (Sea of Okhotsk basin)30.345.340.548.3
Salvethymus svetovidovi” (Elgigitgin Lake, Chukotka Peninsula)26.746.641.540.2
S. malma* (Kuril Islands)29.2640.640.341.9

The matrix of distances was generated by TREECON for construction of NJ tree. For the chars that abbreviate with (*) the averaged pairwise distances between all samples analyzed are shown. The more detailed description of sample is shown at Figure 10.