Age at maturity is a key life history trait and involves a trade-off between survival risk and
reproductive investment, has close connections to fitness, and is an important factor for …

Age at maturity is a key life history trait involving a trade-off between survival risk and
reproductive investment, and is an important factor for population structures. In ectotherms, a …

Sexual maturation is a pivotal life-history trait that balances the probabilities between
mortality and reproduction. Environmental vs. genetic contributions to maturation component …

Abstract Background In Atlantic salmon in the wild, age at maturity is strongly influenced by
the vgll3 locus. Under farming conditions, light, temperature and feeding regimes are known …

Understanding the drivers of evolution is a fundamental aim in biology. However, identifying
the evolutionary impacts of human activities, both direct and indirect, is challenging because …

Genomic regions with large phenotypic effects often contain genes that may have critical
roles as early as development, with potentially broad physiological and morphological …

The optimal phenotypes to survive and reproduce in given evolutionary settings are often in
conflict, which manifest as trade-offs in life history traits. Genome-wide association studies …

How might variation in genomic regions that impact many traits modulate fitness across
different life stages? Aykanat et al.(2024) show that two large-effect loci associated with age …

Understanding the mechanisms by which populations adapt to their environments is a
fundamental aim in biology. However, it remains challenging to identify the genetic basis of …

Rapidly warming water temperatures associated with climate change represent a substantial
disturbance to the habitat of aquatic ectothermic organisms. For salmonid fishes (family …