Cleveland State University EngagedScholarship@CSU Biological, Geological, and Environmental Biological, Geological, and Environmental Faculty Publications Sciences Department 12-2015 An Evaluation of the Genetic Structure of Mapleleaf Mussels (Quadrula quadrula) in the Lake Erie Watershed Wendy L. Paterson Central Michigan University Traci A. Griffith Central Michigan University Robert A. Krebs Cleveland State University,
[email protected] Lyubov E. Burlakova SUNY Buffalo State David T. Zanatta Central Michigan University Follow this and additional works at: https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/scibges_facpub Part of the Biology Commons How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! Recommended Citation Paterson, Wendy L.; Griffith,r T aci A.; Krebs, Robert A.; Burlakova, Lyubov E.; and Zanatta, David T., "An Evaluation of the Genetic Structure of Mapleleaf Mussels (Quadrula quadrula) in the Lake Erie Watershed" (2015). Biological, Geological, and Environmental Faculty Publications. 89. https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/scibges_facpub/89 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Department at EngagedScholarship@CSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Biological, Geological, and Environmental Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of EngagedScholarship@CSU. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. An evaluation of the genetic structure of mapleleaf mussels (Quadrilla quadrula) in the Lake Erie watershed Wendy L. Paterson, Traci A. Griffith, Robert A. Krebs, Lyubov E. Burlakova, David T. Zanatta Introduction was introduced into the Great Lakes region from ballast water of trans oceanic ships (Hebert et al., 1989; Carlton, 2008). Shortly after occurred Freshwater pearly mussels in the family Unionidae are large bivalves the introduction of Dreissena rostriformis bugensis ( Andrusov, 1897 ), an that live in the sediments of rivers, streams, and lakes worldwide, with other Ponto-Caspian region native (Mills et al., 1993).