Genetics and genomic tools are increasingly used to understand how species of conservation concern are uniquely adapted to their environment, and how they are interconnected through space and time. Using genetic loci distributed across the genome can give a broader picture of how evolutionary and ecological processes have shaped extant genetic diversity, and importantly, how populations are inter-related. High throughput ‘omics approaches are used in our lab in ongoing research in the following areas: (1) better understand the genetic basis of adaptive ecological divergence, (2) understand the proximate mechanisms underlying unique physiological and ecological life history traits, and (3) in understanding how organisms have evolved in response to variation in environment over ecological and evolutionary time scales.

 

References

McKinney GJ, et al: Ontogenetic changes in embryonic and brain gene expression in progeny from migratory and resident, Oncorhynchus mykiss. Molecular Ecology 24: 1792-1809, 2015

Hale MC, et al: Evaluating adaptive divergence between migratory and nonmigratory ecotypes of a salmonid fish, Oncorhyncus mykiss. Genes/Genomes/Genetics 3: 1273-85, 2013

 

Keywords:

Genomics; Genetics; Anadromous; Fisheries; Bioinformatics; Migration; Adaptation; Marine;

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