Post-pleistocene colonisation rather than the contemporary environment has most influenced the current population structure of Scottish Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

Finn Cowell; Oscar E. Gaggiotti; Eef Cauwelier

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0333164

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Post-pleistocene colonisation rather than the contemporary environment has most influenced the current population structure of Scottish Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

Finn Cowell ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Visualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: EX01FC@uhi.ac.uk

Affiliations Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, Institute for Biodiversity and Freshwater Conservation, University of the Highlands and Islands, Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8296-297X

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Oscar E. Gaggiotti,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Eef Cauwelier

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Marine Directorate, Freshwater Fisheries Laboratory, Faskally, Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Post-pleistocene colonisation rather than the contemporary environment has most influenced the current population structure of Scottish Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

Finn Cowell,
Oscar E. Gaggiotti,
Eef Cauwelier

Published: October 1, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0333164

About the Authors

Finn Cowell

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Visualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: EX01FC@uhi.ac.uk

Affiliations Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, Institute for Biodiversity and Freshwater Conservation, University of the Highlands and Islands, Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8296-297X

Oscar E. Gaggiotti

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom

Eef Cauwelier

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Marine Directorate, Freshwater Fisheries Laboratory, Faskally, Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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