Infectious and parasitic diseases generate large economic losses in salmon farming. A
feasible and sustainable alternative to prevent disease outbreaks may be represented by …

Here we critically review the scale and extent of adaptive genetic variation in Atlantic salmon
(Salmo salar L.), an important model system in evolutionary and conservation biology that …

Each year, hundreds of thousands of domesticated farmed Atlantic salmon escape into the
wild. In Norway, which is the world's largest commercial producer, many native Atlantic …

Few studies have yet addressed the functional aspects of MHC molecules in fish. To lay the
foundation for this, we evaluated the association between disease resistance and MHC …

Fascinating about classical major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules is their
polymorphism. The present study is a review and discussion of the fish MHC situation. The …

The prediction that selection affects the genome in a locus-specific way also affecting
flanking neutral variation, known as genetic hitchhiking, enables the use of polymorphic …

One of the most important traits linked with the successful domestication of animals is
reducing their sensitivity to environmental stressors in the human controlled environment. In …

An adaptive immune response is usually initiated only if a major histocompatibility complex
(MHC) molecule presents pathogen-derived peptides to T-cells. Every MHC molecule can …

Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules are key players in initiating immune
responses towards invading pathogens. Both MHC class I and class II genes are present in …

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 …