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    "fn": "Owen T Gorman",
    "hasEmail": "mailto:otgorman@usgs.gov"
  },
  "description": "Contained in this data release are the core data elements of our study of the contemporary diversity of the cisco complex of Lake Superior as described by Koelz (1929): Coregonus artedi, C. hoyi, C. kiyi, C. zenithicus, C. reighardi, and C. nigripinnis (Gorman et al. 2026). Fish were collected over a broad range of habitats and geographic regions of Lake Superior during 2003-2021. Most collections were conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada and supplemented by collections from The Nature Conservancy and state and tribal partners. A subset of 602 fish collected from years 2006-2021 were identified morphologically, genotyped, and measured morphometrically. In this data release the following data are provided for 602 morphologically identified and genotyped Lake Superior ciscoes: sample location including state and country, ecoregion, collection date, geographic coordinates, sampling gear, collector; morphological and genetic species identifications; morphological conformation scores; Q-scores; measurement data for 38 morphometric characters and counts; USGS specimen number; MEL_ID (Molecular Ecology Lab Identifier); and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) accession numbers for genetic data.",
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      "description": "Landing page for access to the data",
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      "title": "Digital Data"
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      "description": "The metadata original format",
      "downloadURL": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.6a07284eb66b01b8f8e903c3.xml",
      "format": "XML",
      "mediaType": "text/xml",
      "title": "Original Metadata"
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  ],
  "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_6a07284eb66b01b8f8e903c3",
  "keyword": [
    "Coregonine",
    "Coregonus",
    "Coregonus artedi",
    "Coregonus clupeaformis",
    "Coregonus hoyi",
    "Coregonus kiyi",
    "Coregonus nigripinnis",
    "Coregonus reighardi",
    "Coregonus zenithicus",
    "DNA sequencing",
    "Great Lakes",
    "Lake Superior",
    "Natural Resource Management",
    "USGS:6a07284eb66b01b8f8e903c3",
    "animals",
    "aquatic biology",
    "biodiversity",
    "biota",
    "environment",
    "fish",
    "freshwater ecosystems",
    "genetic diversity",
    "genetics",
    "genotype",
    "ichthyology",
    "inlandWaters",
    "meristics",
    "morphology (biological)",
    "native species",
    "species diversity"
  ],
  "modified": "2026-09-21T00:00:00Z",
  "publisher": {
    "@type": "org:Organization",
    "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"
  },
  "spatial": "-92.6807, 46.3166, -84.1553, 49.1530",
  "theme": [
    "geospatial"
  ],
  "title": "Morphological and genetic data for the Lake Superior cisco complex, 2006-2021"
}