Environmental extremes drive population structure at the northern range limit of Atlantic salmon in North America

EVA Sylvester, RG Beiko, P Bentzen… - Molecular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation of exploited species requires an understanding of both genetic diversity and
the dominant structuring forces, particularly near range limits, where climatic variation can …

Population diversity in salmon: linkages among response, genetic and life history diversity

DC Braun, JW Moore, J Candy, RE Bailey - Ecography, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Response diversity and asynchrony are important for stability and resilience of meta‐
populations, however little is known about the mechanisms that might drive such processes …

Mapping and Expression of Candidate Genes for Development Rate in Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

MC Hale, JA Colletti, SA Gahr, J Scardina… - Journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Development rate has important implications for individual fitness and physiology. In
salmonid fishes, development rate correlates with many traits later in life, including life …

Disentangling complex genomic signals to understand population structure of an exploited, estuarine‐dependent flatfish

SJ O'Leary, CM Hollenbeck, RR Vega… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Interpreting contemporary patterns of population structure requires an understanding of the
interactions among microevolutionary forces and past demographic events. Here, 4,122 …

Genomewide association analyses of fitness traits in captive‐reared Chinook salmon: Applications in evaluating conservation strategies

CD Waters, JJ Hard, MSO Brieuc, DE Fast… - Evolutionary …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A novel application of genomewide association analyses is to use trait‐associated loci to
monitor the effects of conservation strategies on potentially adaptive genetic variation …

Genomic Signatures of Fine-Scale Local Adaptation in Atlantic Salmon Suggest Involvement of Sexual Maturation, Energy Homeostasis, Behaviour, and Immune …

VL Pritchard, H Mäkinen, JP Vähä, J Erkinaro, P Orell… - BioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
Elucidating the genetic basis of adaptation to the local environment can improve our
understanding of how the diversity of life has evolved. In this study we used a dense SNP …

Evidence of neutral and adaptive genetic divergence between European trout populations sampled along altitudinal gradients

I Keller, A Taverna, O Seehausen - Molecular Ecology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Species with a wide geographical distribution are often composed of distinct subgroups
which may be adapted to their local environment. European trout (Salmo trutta species …

Transcriptome profiling in fast versus slow-growing rainbow trout across seasonal gradients

RG Danzmann, AL Kocmarek, JD Norman… - Bmc Genomics, 2016 - Springer
Background Circannual rhythms in vertebrates can influence a wide variety of physiological
processes. Some notable examples include annual reproductive cycles and for …

Genomic signatures of adaptation to novel environments: hatchery and life history-associated loci in landlocked and anadromous Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

AM Harder, MR Christie - Canadian Journal of Fisheries and …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
The adaptation of marine and anadromous fishes to novel, freshwater environments
requires major physiological shifts in functions related to osmoregulation, immunity, and …

SNP signatures of selection on standing genetic variation and their association with adaptive phenotypes along gradients of ecological speciation in lake whitefish …

S Renaut, AW Nolte, SM Rogers, N Derome… - Molecular …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
As populations adapt to novel environments, divergent selection will promote
heterogeneous genomic differentiation via reductions in gene flow for loci underlying …