Tissue-specific metabolic enzyme levels covary with whole-animal metabolic rates and life-history loci via epistatic effects

JM Prokkola, KK Chew, K Anttila… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Metabolic rates, including standard (SMR) and maximum (MMR) metabolic rate have often
been linked with life-history strategies. Variation in context-and tissue-level metabolism …

From threats to solutions: A literature review of climate adaptation in anadromous salmon and trout

LG Crozier, JE Siegel - Ecosphere, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the evolutionary responses of anadromous salmon and trout to climate
change is critical for effective conservation planning. In this study, we conducted a …

A complex mechanism translating variation of a simple genetic architecture into alternative life histories

JP Verta, JE Moustakas-Verho, I Donner… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Understanding the processes that link genotype to phenotype is a central challenge in
biology. Despite progress in discovering genes associated with ecologically relevant traits, a …

Genotype-specific variation in seasonal body condition at a large-effect maturation locus

AH House, PV Debes, J Kurko… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Organisms use resource allocation strategies to survive seasonal environmental changes
and life-history stage transitions. Earlier studies found a transcription cofactor, v gll3 …

[HTML][HTML] Degrees of freedom: temperature's influence on developmental rate

JJ Bourn, MW Dorrity - Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 2024 - Elsevier
Temperature exerts a fundamental influence across scales of biology, from the biophysical
nature of molecules, to the sensitivity of cells, and the coordinated progression of …

Environmental and Genetic (vgll3) Effects on the Prevalence of Male Maturation Phenotypes in Domesticated Atlantic Salmon

TWK Fraser, TJ Hansen, PG Fjelldal - Fishes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Pre-harvest male maturation is problematic for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) farmers and is
regulated by the environment and genetics (eg, vgll3). Five families of all-male salmon parr …

Variation in phenotypic plasticity across age‐at‐maturity genotypes in wild Atlantic salmon

A Raunsgard, L Persson, Y Czorlich… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Evolution of phenotypic plasticity requires genotype–environment interaction. The discovery
of two large‐effect loci in the vgll3 and six6 genomic regions associated with the number of …

Variable parallelism in the genomic basis of age at maturity across spatial scales in Atlantic Salmon

T Kess, SJ Lehnert, P Bentzen, S Duffy… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Complex traits often exhibit complex underlying genetic architectures resulting from a
combination of evolution from standing variation, hard and soft sweeps, and alleles of …

The effect of temperature and dietary energy content on female maturation and egg nutritional content in Atlantic salmon

KS Maamela, ER Åsheim, PV Debes… - Journal of Fish …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The environment experienced by a female influences reproductive traits in many species of
fish. Environmental factors such as temperature and diet are not only important mediators of …

Early survival in Atlantic salmon is associated with parental genotypes at loci linked to timing of maturation

T Aykanat, D McLennan, NB Metcalfe, JM Prokkola - Evolution, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Large effects loci often contain genes with critical developmental functions with potentially
broad effects across life-stages. However, the life-stage-specific fitness consequences are …