Fitness reduction and potential extinction of wild populations of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, as a result of interactions with escaped farm salmon

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1532, 2003, Pages 2443-2450

  McGinnity, Philip ^a   Prodöhl, Paulo ^b   Ferguson, Andy ^b   Hynes, Rosaleen ^b   Maoiléidigh, Niall Ó ^a   Baker, Natalie ^b   Cotter, Deirdre ^a   O'Hea, Brendan ^a   Cooke, Declan ^a   Rogan, Ger ^a   Taggart, John ^c   Cross, Tom ^d  

^a NEWPORT CORPORATION   (United States)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Common garden experiment; DNA profiling; Escaped farm salmon; Extinction vortex; Lifetime success; Outbreeding depression

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION GENETICS; ESCAPEMENT; EXTINCTION RISK; FITNESS; POPULATION GENETICS; SALMONID CULTURE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; BACKCROSSING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FERTILITY; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYBRID; LIFESPAN; NONHUMAN; OUTBREEDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES HABITAT; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALIA; PISCES; SALMO; SALMO SALAR; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 1642413951     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2520     Document Type: Article

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