Human harvest of animals in the wild occurs in terrestrial and aquatic habitats throughout
the world and is often intense. Harvest has the potential to cause three types of genetic …

One of the biggest challenges facing evolutionary biologists is to identify and understand
loci that explain fitness variation in natural populations. This review describes how genetic …

Because of their high variability, microsatellites are still considered the marker of choice for
studies on parentage and kinship in wild populations. Nevertheless, single nucleotide …

Although genetic approaches to questions in fisheries management have been very useful
in the past, they have encountered consistent hurdles despite the development of new …

We report stock composition estimates for immature (ocean-age. 1 and. 2) sockeye salmon
Oncorhynchus nerka distributed across the Bering Sea in late summer and fall. We establish …

Historical and other poor‐quality samples are often necessary for population genetics,
conservation, and forensics studies. Although there is a long history of using mtDNA from …

Advances in genotyping that allow tens of thousands of individuals to be genotyped at a
moderate number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) permit parentage inference to …

How practical is gene and SNP discovery in a nonmodel species using short read
sequences? Next‐generation sequencing technologies are being applied to an increasing …

The genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) are an important component of the
vertebrate immune system and can provide insights into the role of pathogen‐mediated …

The strict homing of sockeye salmon Oncorhynchus nerka results in reproductively isolated
populations that often spawn in close proximity and share rearing habitat. High spawning …