Phylogenetic and biogeographical relationships of the<i>Sander</i>pikeperches (Percidae: Perciformes): patterns across North America and Eurasia
Journal: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Year: 2013

North America and Eurasia share several closely related taxa that diverged either from the breakup of the Laurasian supercontinent or later closures of land bridges. Their modern population structures were shaped in Pleistocene glacial refugia and via later expansion patterns, which are continuing. The pikeperch genus Sander contains five species -two in North America (S. canadensis and S. vitreus) and three in Eurasia (S. lucioperca, S. marinus, and S. volgensis) -whose evolutionary relationshi