Risk assessment of inbreeding and outbreeding depression in a captive-breeding program

Conservation Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 529-540

  Rollinson, Njal ^a,d   Keith, Dave M ^a   Houde, Aimee Lee S ^b   Debes, Paul V ^a   Mcbride, Meghan C ^a   Hutchings, Jeffrey A ^a,c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

COSEWIC; Egg size; Environmental quality; Hatchery; Heterosis; Live gene banking; Local adaptation; Maternal effects; Population collapse; Population viability

Indexed keywords

BROOD STOCK; CAPTIVE BREEDING; CONSERVATION GENETICS; EGG SIZE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; FITNESS; HATCHERY; HETEROSIS; HYBRID; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; JUVENILE; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MATERNAL EFFECT; OUTCROSSING; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALMONID; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

SALMO SALAR;

ANIMAL; ATLANTIC SALMON; BREEDING; CANADA; CROSS BREEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INBREEDING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENETIC VARIATION; INBREEDING; NOVA SCOTIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALMO SALAR;

EID: 84896314968     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12188     Document Type: Article

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