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Selection on breeding date and body size in colonizing coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jun 2010
Anderson J H, Faulds P L, Atlas W I, Pess G R, Quinn T P
Abstract excerpt
Selection during the colonization of new habitat is critical to the process of local adaptation, but has rarely been studied. We measured the form, direction, and strength of selection on body size and date of arrival to the breeding grounds over the first three cohorts (2003-2005) of a coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) population colonizing 33 km of habitat made accessible by modification of Landsburg Diversion...
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