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Artificial and natural cross breeding between Atlantic salmon and salmonids currently present in Japan

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We evaluated the potential for hybridization between Atlantic salmon and salmonids currently present in Japan. We performed artificial and natural crosses and tested for hybridization using short interspersed elements. We documented the occurrence of hybrids and gynogenesis following artificial crossing. However, the survival rate of these offspring was low (<2 % to the fry stage). We were unable to obtain viable offspring from natural crosses of Atlantic salmon and chum salmon or masu salmon. Our results suggest that there is little risk of hybridization between Atlantic salmon and salmonids that are currently present in the wild in Japan. Furthermore, our results suggest that gynogenesis may occur naturally.

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Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge the staff at the Nemuro field station of the Hokkaido National Fisheries Research Institute, the Shibetsu Salmon Museum, and the Sapporo Salmon Museum for their assistance in rearing fish. We thank Ms. Yasue Takemura, Ms. Sayuri Kurokawa, and Ms. Asami Fukuda for help constructing the graphs and processing data. This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Assurance of Safe Use of Genetically Modified Organisms Project of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan.

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  1. Hokkaido National Fisheries Research Institute, Fisheries Research Agency, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 062-0922, Japan

    Masatoshi Ban & Shunpei Sato

  2. National Research Institute of Aquaculture, Fisheries Research Agency, Minami-Ise, Mie, 516-0193, Japan

    Hiroyuki Nagoya

  3. Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, Fisheries Research Agency, Miyako, Iwate, 027-0052, Japan

    Hirohumi Yaegashi

  4. Shibetsu Salmon Museum, Shibetsu, Hokkaido, 086-1631, Japan

    Masaki Ichimura

  5. Sapporo Salmon Museum, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 005-0017, Japan

    Nobuhiro Sato

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Ban, M., Nagoya, H., Sato, S. et al. Artificial and natural cross breeding between Atlantic salmon and salmonids currently present in Japan. Fish Sci 79, 967–975 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12562-013-0670-1

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