Supplementary stocking selects for domesticated genotypes

Supplementary stocking selects for domesticated genotypes

Supplementary stocking selects for domesticated genotypes, Published online: 14 January 2019; doi:10.1038/s41467-018-08021-z

Stocking of hatchery produced fish is widely used to supplement wild fish populations. Here, the authors show that supplementary stocking can unintentionally favour introgressed individuals with domestic genotypes and compromise the fitness of a wild population of Atlantic salmon.

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