Local adaptation and phenotypic differences among populations have been reported in
many species, though most studies focus on either neutral or adaptive genetic …

Genetic architecture and phenotypic plasticity are important considerations when studying
trait variation within and among populations. Since environmental change can induce shifts …

Inbreeding depression is the loss of fitness resulting from the mating of genetically related
individuals. Traditionally, the study of inbreeding depression focused on genetic effects …

Epigenetic mechanisms generate plastic phenotypes that can become locally adapted
across environments. Disentangling genomic from epigenomic variation is challenging in …

Genetic selection is often implicated as the underlying cause of heritable phenotypic
differences between hatchery and wild populations of steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus …

The view of maternal effects (nongenetic maternal environmental influence on offspring
phenotype) has changed from one of distracting complications in evolutionary genetics to an …

It has been hypothesized that environmentally induced changes to gene body methylation
could facilitate adaptive transgenerational responses to changing environments. We …

DNA methylation is an important epigenetic modification that has been repeatedly implied in
organismal adaptation. However, many previous studies that have linked DNA methylation …

An epigenetic basis for transgenerational plasticity in animals is widely theorized, but
convincing empirical support is limited by taxa-specific differences in the presence and role …

Human activities and resource exploitation led to a massive decline of wild salmonid
populations, consequently, numerous conservation programs have been developed to …