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Salmon Tales: Sex, myth and molecular genetics of an iconic fish

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2019-09-13

A sockeye salmon's life ends right back where it began, culminating in an anadromous drama of sex, decay and sacrifice.Patty Zwollo says that it's all part of sexual maturation in salmon: They swim up out of the Pacific into the same streams in which they were born and into the lives, literature and religion of the native peoples of the drainages.

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https://phys.org/news/2019-09-salmon-tales-sex-myth-molecular.html