Over the past decades, Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar, Salmonidae) has emerged as a model
system for sexual maturation research, owing to the high diversity of life history strategies …

The magnitude of many kinds of biological structures and processes scale with organismal
size, often in regular ways that can be described by power functions. Traditionally, many of …

Understanding the genetic basis of repeated evolution of the same phenotype across taxa is
a fundamental aim in evolutionary biology and has applications in conservation and …

Age at maturity is a key life history trait involving a trade-off between survival risk and
reproductive investment, and is an important factor for population structures. In ectotherms, a …

Efforts to understand the genetic underpinnings of phenotypic variation are becoming more
and more frequent in molecular ecology. Such efforts often lead to the identification of …

A major goal in biology is to understand how evolution shapes variation in individual life
histories. Genome-wide association studies have been successful in uncovering genome …

Sexual maturation in many fishes requires a major physiological change that involves a
rapid transition between energy storage and usage. In Atlantic salmon, this transition for the …

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 …

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 …

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 …