Carlos Garcia de Leaniz

Salmonid Adaptations

Salmonids are good models to study evolutionary processes because one can compare evolution under natural and artificial environments, as well as under freshwater and marine conditions. In addition, many salmonids tend to spawn close to where they hatched and this has resulted in local adaptations. Yet, salmonids are also very plastic, and have in many cases thrived outside their natural distribution. We compare wild and hatchery populations, as well as resident and foreign fish, to gain a better understanding of adaptive responses to selection.

Funding: EU-FP7, ESF, Fisheries Society of the British Isles

Representative Publications

Fridjonsson et. al (2011). BMC Genomics 12: 179; Consuegra & García de Leániz (2008). Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. (B) 275: 1397-1403; Garcia de Leaniz, C., et al (2007a). Biological Reviews. 82: 173-211; Garcia de Leaniz, C., et al (2007b). Local Adaptation. Consuegra & Garcia de Leániz (2007). Evolutionary Ecology 21: 229-245.; Ciborowski et al (2007). Biology Letters 3: 554-557; Consuegra et al (2005). Conservation Genetics 6: 823-842.; Consuegra et al (2002). Molecular Ecology 11: 2037-2048. ; Garcia de Leaniz & Verspoor (1989). Journal of Fish Biology 34: 41-46.

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