Amanda Ackiss, PhD, is a Fisheries Biologist based in Ann Arbor, MI.
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Results of the collaborative Lake Ontario bloater restoration stocking and assessment, 2012–2020
Bloater, Coregonus hoyi, are deepwater planktivores native to the Laurentian Great Lakes and Lake Nipigon. Interpretations of commercial fishery time series suggest they were common in Lake Ontario through the early 1900s but by the 1950s were no longer captured by commercial fishers. Annual bottom trawl surveys that began in 1978 and sampled extensively across putative bloater habitat only yielde
Genomic and environmental influences on resilience in a cold-water fish near the edge of its range
Small, isolated populations present a challenge for conservation. The dueling effects of selection and drift in a limited pool of genetic diversity make the responses of small populations to environmental perturbations erratic and difficult to predict. This is particularly true at the edge of a species range, where populations often persist at the limits of their environmental tolerances. Populati
Genomics reveals identity, phenology and population demographics of larval ciscoes (Coregonus artedi, C. hoyi, and C. kiyi) in the Apostle Islands, Lake Superior
We demonstrate, for the first time, the ability to reliably assign an assemblage of larval coregonines [Salmonidae Coregoninae] to shallow and multiple deepwater species. Larval coregonines from the Apostle Islands, Lake Superior, were genotyped using restriction site-associated DNA sequencing (RADseq) and were assigned to species using reference genotypes from adult corgonines from the same regio
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Ackiss, AS, Balao, F. Diving in uncharted waters: an updated genetics toolkit highlights the challenges of polyploidy in landscape genomics analyses. Mol Ecol Resour. 2020;00:1–3. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13203
Biesack, EE, Dang, BT, Ackiss, AS, Bird, CE, Chheng, P, Phounvisouk, L, Truong, OT, Carpenter, KE. Evidence for population genetic structure in two exploited Mekong River fishes across a natural riverine barrier. Journal of Fish Biology. 2020 Jun 17. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14424
Ackiss, AS, Larson, WA, Stott, W. Genotyping‐by‐sequencing illuminates high levels of divergence among sympatric forms of coregonines in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Evol Appl. 2020; 00: 1– 18. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12919
Dang, BT, Vu, QH, Biesack, EE, Doan, TV, Truong, OT, Tran, TL, Ackiss, AS, Stockwell, BL, Carpenter, KE. Population genomics of the peripheral freshwater fish Polynemus melanochir (Perciformes, Polynemidae) in a changing Mekong Delta. Conservation Genetics. 2019 Oct 15;20(5):961-72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-019-01189-x
Ackiss, AS, Dang, BT, Bird, CE, Biesack, EE, Chheng, P, Phounvisouk, L, Vu, QH, Uy, S, Carpenter, KE. Cryptic lineages and a population dammed to incipient extinction? Insights into the genetic structure of a Mekong River catfish. Journal of Heredity. 2019 Jul;110(5):535-47, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esz016
Ackiss, AS, Bird, CE, Akita, Y, Santos, MD, Tachihara, K, Carpenter, KE. Genetic patterns in peripheral marine populations of the fusilier fish Caesio cuning within the Kuroshio Current. Ecol Evol. 2018; 8: 11875– 11886. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4644
Ackiss, AS, Pardede, S, Crandall, ED, Ablan-Lagman, MC, Ambariyanto, Romena, N, Barber, PH, Carpenter, KE. Pronounced genetic structure in a highly mobile coral reef fish, Caesio cuning, in the Coral Triangle. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 2013 Apr 22;480:185-97. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps10199
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
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Results of the collaborative Lake Ontario bloater restoration stocking and assessment, 2012–2020
Bloater, Coregonus hoyi, are deepwater planktivores native to the Laurentian Great Lakes and Lake Nipigon. Interpretations of commercial fishery time series suggest they were common in Lake Ontario through the early 1900s but by the 1950s were no longer captured by commercial fishers. Annual bottom trawl surveys that began in 1978 and sampled extensively across putative bloater habitat only yieldeGenomic and environmental influences on resilience in a cold-water fish near the edge of its range
Small, isolated populations present a challenge for conservation. The dueling effects of selection and drift in a limited pool of genetic diversity make the responses of small populations to environmental perturbations erratic and difficult to predict. This is particularly true at the edge of a species range, where populations often persist at the limits of their environmental tolerances. PopulatiGenomics reveals identity, phenology and population demographics of larval ciscoes (Coregonus artedi, C. hoyi, and C. kiyi) in the Apostle Islands, Lake Superior
We demonstrate, for the first time, the ability to reliably assign an assemblage of larval coregonines [Salmonidae Coregoninae] to shallow and multiple deepwater species. Larval coregonines from the Apostle Islands, Lake Superior, were genotyped using restriction site-associated DNA sequencing (RADseq) and were assigned to species using reference genotypes from adult corgonines from the same regioNon-USGS Publications**
Ackiss, AS, Balao, F. Diving in uncharted waters: an updated genetics toolkit highlights the challenges of polyploidy in landscape genomics analyses. Mol Ecol Resour. 2020;00:1–3. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13203Biesack, EE, Dang, BT, Ackiss, AS, Bird, CE, Chheng, P, Phounvisouk, L, Truong, OT, Carpenter, KE. Evidence for population genetic structure in two exploited Mekong River fishes across a natural riverine barrier. Journal of Fish Biology. 2020 Jun 17. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14424Ackiss, AS, Larson, WA, Stott, W. Genotyping‐by‐sequencing illuminates high levels of divergence among sympatric forms of coregonines in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Evol Appl. 2020; 00: 1– 18. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12919Dang, BT, Vu, QH, Biesack, EE, Doan, TV, Truong, OT, Tran, TL, Ackiss, AS, Stockwell, BL, Carpenter, KE. Population genomics of the peripheral freshwater fish Polynemus melanochir (Perciformes, Polynemidae) in a changing Mekong Delta. Conservation Genetics. 2019 Oct 15;20(5):961-72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-019-01189-xAckiss, AS, Dang, BT, Bird, CE, Biesack, EE, Chheng, P, Phounvisouk, L, Vu, QH, Uy, S, Carpenter, KE. Cryptic lineages and a population dammed to incipient extinction? Insights into the genetic structure of a Mekong River catfish. Journal of Heredity. 2019 Jul;110(5):535-47, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esz016Ackiss, AS, Bird, CE, Akita, Y, Santos, MD, Tachihara, K, Carpenter, KE. Genetic patterns in peripheral marine populations of the fusilier fish Caesio cuning within the Kuroshio Current. Ecol Evol. 2018; 8: 11875– 11886. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4644Ackiss, AS, Pardede, S, Crandall, ED, Ablan-Lagman, MC, Ambariyanto, Romena, N, Barber, PH, Carpenter, KE. Pronounced genetic structure in a highly mobile coral reef fish, Caesio cuning, in the Coral Triangle. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 2013 Apr 22;480:185-97. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps10199**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
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