Infectious disease, shifting climates, and opportunistic predators: cumulative factors potentially impacting wild salmon declines

KM Miller, A Teffer, S Tucker, S Li… - Evolutionary …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging diseases are impacting animals under high‐density culture, yet few studies
assess their importance to wild populations. Microparasites selected for enhanced virulence …

Oxygen uptake in Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp.: when ecology and physiology meet

EJ Eliason, AP Farrell - Journal of Fish Biology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past several decades, a substantial amount of research has examined how
cardiorespiratory physiology supports the diverse activities performed throughout the life …

Differences in thermal tolerance among sockeye salmon populations

EJ Eliason, TD Clark, MJ Hague, LM Hanson… - Science, 2011 - science.org
Climate change–induced increases in summer water temperature have been associated
with elevated mortality of adult sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) during river …

Genomic signatures predict migration and spawning failure in wild Canadian salmon

KM Miller, S Li, KH Kaukinen, N Ginther, E Hammill… - science, 2011 - science.org
Long-term population viability of Fraser River sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) is
threatened by unusually high levels of mortality as they swim to their spawning areas before …

Cardiorespiratory collapse at high temperature in swimming adult sockeye salmon

EJ Eliason, TD Clark, SG Hinch… - Conservation …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Elevated summer river temperatures are associated with high in-river mortality in adult
sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) during their once-in-a-lifetime spawning migration …

Transcriptomic responses to high water temperature in two species of P acific salmon

KM Jeffries, SG Hinch, T Sierocinski… - Evolutionary …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Characterizing the cellular stress response (CSR) of species at ecologically relevant
temperatures is useful for determining whether populations and species can successfully …

Detecting population structure in a high gene-flow species, Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus): direct, simultaneous evaluation of neutral vs putatively selected loci

C André, LC Larsson, L Laikre, D Bekkevold, J Brigham… - Heredity, 2011 - nature.com
In many marine fish species, genetic population structure is typically weak because
populations are large, evolutionarily young and have a high potential for gene flow. We …

Developing a mechanistic understanding of fish migrations by linking telemetry with physiology, behavior, genomics and experimental biology: an interdisciplinary …

SJ Cooke, SG Hinch, AP Farrell, DA Patterson… - Fisheries, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Fish migration represents one of the most complex and intriguing biological phenomena in
the animal kingdom. How do fish migrate such vast distances? What are the costs and …

A comparison of SNP and STR loci for delineating population structure and performing individual genetic assignment

KA Glover, MM Hansen, S Lien, TD Als, B Høyheim… - BMC genetics, 2010 - Springer
Background Technological advances have lead to the rapid increase in availability of single
nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in a range of organisms, and there is a general optimism …

A metapopulation perspective for salmon and other anadromous fish

N Schtickzelle, TP Quinn - Fish and fisheries, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Salmonids are an important component of biodiversity, culture and economy in several
regions, particularly the North Pacific Rim. Given this importance, they have been intensively …