The use of non-lethal sampling for transcriptomics to assess the physiological status of wild fishes

KM Jeffries, A Teffer, S Michaleski, NJ Bernier… - … and Physiology Part B …, 2021 - Elsevier
Fishes respond to different abiotic and biotic stressors through changes in gene expression
as a part of an integrated physiological response. Transcriptomics approaches have been …

Innovating transcriptomics for practitioners in freshwater fish management and conservation: best practices across diverse resource-sector users

CAD Semeniuk, KM Jeffries, T Li, CM Bettles… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2022 - Springer
Thriving freshwater fish populations contribute to people's economic prosperity and
wellbeing. Yet, freshwater fish populations are in critical condition around the globe. Most …

Rearing environment affects the genetic architecture and plasticity of DNA methylation in Chinook salmon

CJ Venney, KW Wellband, DD Heath - Heredity, 2021 - nature.com
Genetic architecture and phenotypic plasticity are important considerations when studying
trait variation within and among populations. Since environmental change can induce shifts …

DNA methylation profiles suggest intergenerational transfer of maternal effects

CJ Venney, OP Love, EJ Drown… - Molecular Biology and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The view of maternal effects (nongenetic maternal environmental influence on offspring
phenotype) has changed from one of distracting complications in evolutionary genetics to an …

The impact of outbreeding on the immune function and disease status of eight hybrid Chinook salmon crosses after Vibrio anguillarum challenge

SL Semple, G Heath, CT Filice, DD Heath… - Aquaculture …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aquaculture in North America is currently dominated by Atlantic salmon, but there
has been an increasing interest in the production of species native to the Pacific coast …

Environment and genotype predict the genomic nature of domestication of salmonids as revealed by gene expression

JK Bull, BCM Stanford, JK Bokvist… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Billions of salmonids are produced annually by artificial reproduction for harvest and
conservation. Morphologically, behaviourally and physiologically these fish differ from wild …

Genetic architecture and correlations between the gut microbiome and gut gene transcription in Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)

J Sadeghi, F Zaib, DD Heath - Heredity, 2024 - nature.com
Population divergence through selection can drive local adaptation in natural populations
which has implications for the effective restoration of declining and extirpated populations …

[HTML][HTML] Characterising the Physiological Responses of Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Subjected to Heat and Oxygen Stress

R Marcoli, JE Symonds, SP Walker, CN Battershill… - Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary It is widely accepted that climate change is a rapidly increasing threat to
the aquaculture industry, with the biggest issue being a slow but continuous rise in water …

Domestic-wild hybridization to improve aquaculture performance in Chinook salmon

CAD Semeniuk, PM Capelle, MGE Dender, R Devlin… - Aquaculture, 2019 - Elsevier
Salmon farming is one of Canada's fastest growing industries and contributes to Canada's
economy as well as creating jobs in rural areas; however, the industry is challenged by the …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal near-surface hypoxia in a temperate fjord in Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia

S Rosen, L Bianucci, JM Jackson, A Hare… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
While fjords often have low oxygen concentrations in their deep waters, this research
identified seasonal, near-surface hypoxia (≤ 2 mL L-1 or 2.9 mg L-1) through a year-long …