Genetic, environmental, and physiological factors involved in the precocious sexual maturation of chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)

Male chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), that mature sexually one year prior to females and after at least one summer in sea water, are known as jacks. A breeding experiment to test for genetic and environmental (temperature at early rearing) effects on the incidence of jacking in chinook sal...

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Main Author: Heath, Daniel D.
Language:English
Published: 2008
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2174