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Temporal variation in selection on body length and date of return in a wild population of coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch

Miyako Kodama1*, Jeffrey J Hard2 and Kerry A Naish1

1 School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA

2 National Marine Fisheries Service, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA, 98112, USA

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2012, 12:116 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-12-116

Published: 17 July 2012

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Changes in male to female sex ratio. Plot (a) is for the 2006 parental cohort, and plot (b) is for the 2007 parental cohort. Note the different scales on yaxes.

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Microsatellite loci used for parentage analysis of coho salmon. Ta = annealing temperature. Repeat units and allele ranges are given in base pairs (bp) [71-76].

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Population genetic data at 11 microsatellite loci in coho salmon samples. N = number of genotyped inidividuals, NA = number of alleles, HO = observed heterozygosity, HE = expected heterozygosity, PHWE = probability of Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (significant results in bold), FIS = inbreeding coefficient.

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