Anthropogenic habitat alteration leads to rapid loss of adaptive variation and restoration potential in wild salmon populations
Tasha Q. Thompson, M. Renee Bellinger, Sean M. O’Rourke, Daniel J. Prince, Alexander E. Stevenson, Antonia T. Rodrigues, Matthew R. Sloat, Camilla Speller, Dongya Y. Yang, Virginia L. Butler, Michael A. Banks, Michael Ryan Miller
The paper shows that dam construction rapidly reduces adaptive genetic variation in salmon by selecting for a single locus, threatening recovery despite potential habitat restoration.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Dec 4, 2018Peer-reviewedGenetics