• Sex-specific overdominance at the maturation vgll3 gene for reproductive fitness in wild Atlantic salmon 

      Mobley, Kenyon Brice; Barton, Henry J.; Ellmén, Mikko; Ruokolainen, Annukka; Guttorm, Olavi; Pieski, Hans; Orell, Panu; Erkinaro, Jaakko; Primmer, Craig R. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-06-15)
      Linking reproductive fitness with adaptive traits at the genomic level can shed light on the mechanisms that produce and maintain sex-specific selection. Here, we construct a multigenerational pedigree to investigate sex-specific selection on a maturation gene, vgll3, in a wild Atlantic salmon population. The vgll3 locus is responsible for ~40% of the variation in maturation (sea age at first ...