High frequency of translocation heterozygotes in odd year populations of pink salmon ( Oncorhynchus gorbuscha)

• Published in: Cytogenetic and Genome Research
• Main Authors: Phillips, R.B., Kapuscinski, A.R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: S. Karger AG 1988
• Subjects: Long Arm; Oncorhynchus gorbuscha; Pink salmon; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000132620; https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/132620

The pink salmon ( Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) has a rigid two year life cycle so that populations spawning on the even years do not hybridize with populations spawning on the odd years. Examination of the chromosomes of two populations from an even year (1986) and four populations from an odd year (1987...