Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) genetics in the 21st century: taking leaps forward in aquaculture and biological understanding

RD Houston, DJ Macqueen - Animal Genetics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) is among the most iconic and economically important fish
species and was the first member of Salmonidae to have a high‐quality reference genome …

Conservation and management of salmon in the age of genomics

RS Waples, KA Naish… - Annual Review of Animal …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Salmon were among the first nonmodel species for which systematic population genetic
studies of natural populations were conducted, often to support management and …

Applications of random forest feature selection for fine‐scale genetic population assignment

EVA Sylvester, P Bentzen, IR Bradbury… - Evolutionary …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic population assignment used to inform wildlife management and conservation efforts
requires panels of highly informative genetic markers and sensitive assignment tests. We …

Estimating pairwise relatedness in a small sample of individuals

J Wang - Heredity, 2017 - nature.com
The genetic relatedness between individuals because of their recent common ancestry is
now routinely estimated from marker genotype data in molecular ecology, evolutionary …

The conservation physiology toolbox: status and opportunities

CL Madliger, OP Love, KR Hultine… - Conservation …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
For over a century, physiological tools and techniques have been allowing researchers to
characterize how organisms respond to changes in their natural environment and how they …

Multifaceted framework for defining conservation units: An example from Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in Canada

SJ Lehnert, IR Bradbury, BF Wringe… - Evolutionary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation units represent important components of intraspecific diversity that can aid in
prioritizing and protecting at‐risk populations, while also safeguarding unique diversity that …

Identifying patterns of dispersal, connectivity and selection in the sea scallop, Placopecten magellanicus, using RADseq‐derived SNPs

M Van Wyngaarden, PVR Snelgrove… - Evolutionary …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding patterns of dispersal and connectivity among marine populations can directly
inform fisheries conservation and management. Advances in high‐throughput sequencing …

Riverscape genomics of a threatened fish across a hydroclimatically heterogeneous river basin

CJ Brauer, MP Hammer, LB Beheregaray - Molecular Ecology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how natural selection generates and maintains adaptive genetic diversity in
heterogeneous environments is key to predicting the evolutionary response of populations …

Transatlantic secondary contact in Atlantic Salmon, comparing microsatellites, a single nucleotide polymorphism array and restriction‐site associated DNA …

IR Bradbury, LC Hamilton, B Dempson… - Molecular …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Identification of discrete and unique assemblages of individuals or populations is central to
the management of exploited species. Advances in population genomics provide new …

Genomics and conservation units: The genetic basis of adult migration timing in Pacific salmonids

RS Waples, ST Lindley - Evolutionary Applications, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
It is now routinely possible to generate genomics‐scale datasets for nonmodel species;
however, many questions remain about how best to use these data for conservation and …