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Phenotypic divergence between hatchery pink and coho salmon and their wild counterparts



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  • Journal Title:
    Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    Interbreeding between hatchery-reared and wild salmon raises concerns that hatchery fish may increase the frequency of maladapted alleles in wild populations, yet divergence between hatchery populations and their original sources remains poorly understood. We explored phenotypic divergence in reproductive traits between hatchery and source populations of pink (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) and coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in Southeast Alaska, hypothesizing that relaxed selection in the hatchery would result in males with smaller snouts and humps and females with larger gonadosomatic indices and smaller, less nutrient-dense eggs. Findings partly confirmed these expectations. Our hypotheses were supported in coho salmon females and odd-year pink salmon males, but results from coho salmon males opposed our hypotheses and we observed no phenotypic divergence in even-year pink salmon, possibly due to high gene flow between hatchery and wild populations. These mixed results indicate significant yet variable phenotypic differences between hatchery and wild salmon in key reproductive traits. Our study provides a rare comparison of how hatchery rearing affects reproductive traits between species with different life histories in Southeast Alaska.
  • Source:
    Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 82, 1-12
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  • ISSN:
    0706-652X ; 1205-7533
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    Canadian Science Publishing
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    Journal Article
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    CC BY
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    Submitted
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