The utility of transcriptomics in fish conservation

RE Connon, KM Jeffries… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
There is growing recognition of the need to understand the mechanisms underlying
organismal resilience (ie tolerance, acclimatization) to environmental change to support the …

Retention of a chromosomal inversion from an anadromous ancestor provides the genetic basis for alternative freshwater ecotypes in rainbow trout

MC Arostegui, TP Quinn, LW Seeb, JE Seeb… - Molecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Migratory behaviour patterns in animals are controlled by a complex genetic architecture.
Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is a salmonid fish that spawns in streams but exhibits …

Role of genomics and transcriptomics in selection of reintroduction source populations

X He, ML Johansson, DD Heath - Conservation Biology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The use and importance of reintroduction as a conservation tool to return a species to its
historical range from which it has been extirpated will increase as climate change and …

Transcriptional response to acute thermal exposure in juvenile Chinook salmon determined by RNAseq

KMH Tomalty, MH Meek, MR Stephens… - G3: Genes …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Thermal exposure is a serious and growing challenge facing fish species worldwide.
Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) living in the southern portion of their native …

Identification of infectious agents in early marine Chinook and Coho salmon associated with cohort survival

AL Bass, AW Bateman, BM Connors, BA Staton… - Facets, 2022 - facetsjournal.com
Recent decades have seen an increased appreciation for the role infectious diseases can
play in mass mortality events across a diversity of marine taxa. At the same time many …

Population differences in Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) DNA methylation: Genetic drift and environmental factors

CJ Venney, BJG Sutherland, TD Beacham… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Local adaptation and phenotypic differences among populations have been reported in
many species, though most studies focus on either neutral or adaptive genetic …

Evidence of a hydraulically challenging reach serving as a barrier for the upstream migration of infection-burdened adult steelhead

WM Twardek, JM Chapman, KM Miller… - Conservation …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Anadromous fishes such as steelhead trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, are exposed to a suite of
infectious agents and migratory challenges during their freshwater migrations. We assessed …

Transcriptome response of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) to competition with ecologically similar non‐native species

X He, ALS Houde, BD Neff, DD Heath - Ecology and Evolution, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐native species may be introduced either intentionally or unintentionally, and their
impact can range from benign to highly disruptive. Non‐native salmonids were introduced …

The relative contribution of drift and selection to transcriptional divergence among Babine Lake tributary populations of juvenile rainbow trout

KW Wellband, DD Heath - Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Fine‐scale population structure has been widely described for salmonid populations using
neutral genetic markers, but whether that structure reflects adaptive differences among the …

Impacts of climate change on Columbia River salmon

EGR Crozier - 2014 - repository.library.noaa.gov
A number of key new global and regional climate projections were released in 2013.
Working Group I of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) completed its …