Local Atlantic salmon have higher reproductive fitness than dispersers in the wild (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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Local Atlantic salmon have higher reproductive fitness than dispersers in the wild (1 of 1)

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Atlantic salmon at their spawning grounds in northern Finland. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 27th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by K.B. Mobley at University of Helsinki in Helsinki, Finland, and colleagues was titled, "Home ground advantage: Local Atlantic salmon have higher reproductive fitness than dispersers in the wild."

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[Credit: Pekka Turri]

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