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Long-term population monitoring used to study Atlantic salmon evolution

13 Jun 2019

Ronan O鈥橲ullivan, a PhD student in the School of BEES, along with an international team of collaborators have published research examining how evolution may be measured in a free-living population of Atlantic salmon.

The research (which represents a collaboration between UCC, ERI, the Marine Institute, QUB, UCD, 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Edinburgh, and 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Helsinki) uses quantitative genetics to explore a discordance between observed and predicted rates in the evolution of body size in female salmon from the Burrishoole catchment in Co. Mayo. 鈥�The monitoring of Atlantic salmon at Burrishoole provides researchers with an incredible source. It is only with such long-term studies that we are able to observe the inter-generational evolutionary dynamics of species鈥�, said Mr. O鈥橲ullivan.

The research is published in Ecology and Evolution and is Open Access: .

Congratulations to our colleague Ronan O'Sullivan and co-authors on their publication. Check it out here:

鈥� FishEyE (@FishEcoEvo)

Evolutionary stasis of a heritable morphological trait in a wild fish population despite apparent directional selection
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鈥� Elvira de Eyto (@edeeyto)