Articles from the March 5, 2016 edition

Mar 5, 2016

Steelhead released It takes just one generation for the DNA of steelhead domesticated in hatcheries to be altered and to be significantly different than steelhead whose parents are wild, according to a recent study by Oregon State University. In fact the study found that in just one generation there were 723 genes that differed between the offspring of wild steelhead and the offspring of first-generation hatchery steelhead. Further, the study found through gene enrichment analysis that adapting to the hatchery environment involves responses by...