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Quantifying heritable variation in fitness-related traits of wild, farmed and hybrid Atlantic salmon families in a wild river environment.
Heredity - 1 Aug 2015
Reed T E, Prodöhl P, Hynes R, Cross T, Ferguson A, McGinnity P
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Farmed fish are typically genetically different from wild conspecifics. Escapees from fish farms may contribute one-way gene flow from farm to wild gene pools, which can depress population productivity, dilute local adaptations and disrupt coadapted gene complexes. Here, we reanalyse data from tw...
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