Optimal energy allocation trade‐off driven by size‐dependent physiological and demographic responses to warming

V Thunell, A Gårdmark, M Huss, Y Vindenes - Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Body size–dependent physiological effects of temperature influence individual growth,
reproduction, and survival, which govern animal population responses to global warming …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 effect loci often contain genes with critical developmental functions and potentially
broad effects across life stages. However, their life stage-specific fitness consequences are …

Sex‐specific associations of the maturation locus vgll3 with exploratory behavior and boldness in Atlantic salmon juveniles

PB Bangura, K Tiira, T Aykanat… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Studies linking genetics, behavior and life history in any species are rare. In Atlantic salmon
(Salmo salar), age at maturity is a key life‐history trait and associates strongly with the vgll3 …

Loci associated with maturation, migration and appetite control are linked with signals of fine-scale local selection in a large Atlantic salmon population

A Miettinen, J Dannewitz, S Palm, EP Ahi… - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Insights into the genetic basis of local adaptation and drivers of population differentiation
improve our understanding of evolution and the maintenance of biological diversity …

Fast and cost‐efficient species identification of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.), brown trout (Salmo trutta), and their hybrids using a single SNP marker

T Aykanat, A Balatsou, K Kähkönen… - Journal of Fish …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A workflow for develo** a cost‐and time‐efficient, single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)‐
based assay for species and hybrid identification is described. In a reference set (n= 46), the …

[HTML][HTML] Limited effects of size-selective harvesting and harvesting-induced life-history changes on the temporal variability of biomass dynamics in complex food webs

E Nonaka, A Kuparinen - Ecological Modelling, 2023 - Elsevier
Harvesting has been implicated in destabilizing the abundances of exploited populations.
Because selective harvesting often targets large individuals, some studies have proposed …

Sex‐specific overdominance at the maturation vgll3 gene for reproductive fitness in wild Atlantic salmon

KB Mobley, HJ Barton, M Ellmén… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Linking reproductive fitness with adaptive traits at the genomic level can shed light on the
mechanisms that produce and maintain sex‐specific selection. Here, we construct a …