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Ian A. Fleming is affiliated with the Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant number of publications in these fields.

The scientist's work covers several subfields including nature and landscape conservation, genetics, aquatic science, global and planetary change, and physiology. Their main topics of study encompass fish ecology and management studies, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, genetic diversity and population structure, aquaculture nutrition and growth, reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species, marine and fisheries research, and animal genetics and reproduction.

Fleming's recent publications include:

  • Genomic evidence of recent European introgression into North American farmed and wild Atlantic salmon, 2022, Evolutionary Applications
  • Beyond hybridization: the genetic impacts of nonreproductive ecological interactions of salmon aquaculture on wild populations, 2020, Aquaculture Environment Interactions
  • Behavioural variation among divergent European and North American farmed and wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) populations, 2020, Applied Animal Behaviour Science
  • An aquaculture risk model to understand the causes and consequences of Atlantic Salmon mass mortality events: A review, 2024, Reviews in Aquaculture
  • Early-life fitness trait variation among divergent European and North American farmed and Newfoundland wild Atlantic salmon populations, 2021, Aquaculture Environment Interactions

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Fleming include:

  • Ian Bradbury
  • IR Bradbury
  • Steven Duffy
  • Amber Messmer
  • Shahinur S. Islam

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Aquaculture Environment Interactions
  • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Evolutionary Applications
  • Reviews in Aquaculture

Best Publications

  • Reproductive strategies of Atlantic salmon: ecology and evolution

    Ian A. Fleming

  • Lifetime success and interactions of farm salmon invading a native population.

    Ian A. Fleming;Kjetil Hindar;Ingrid B. Mjølnerød;Bror Jonsson

  • A critical review of adaptive genetic variation in Atlantic salmon: implications for conservation

    C. Garcia de Leaniz;I. A. Fleming;S. Einum;E. Verspoor

  • Selection against late emergence and small offspring in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar).

    Sigurd Einum;Ian A. Fleming

  • Fugitive Salmon: Assessing the Risks of Escaped Fish from Net-Pen Aquaculture

    Rosamond Naylor;Kjetil Hindar;Ian A. Fleming;Rebecca Goldburg

  • Maternal effects of egg size in brown trout (Salmo trutta): norms of reaction to environmental quality

    Sigurd. Einum;Ian.A. Fleming

  • Latitudinal Clines: A Trade‐Off between Egg Number and Size in Pacific Salmon

    Ian A. Fleming;Mart R. Gross

  • Highly fecund mothers sacrifice offspring survival to maximize fitness

    Sigurd Einum;Ian A. Fleming

  • Pattern and variability in the breeding system of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), with comparisons to other salmonids

    Ian A Fleming

  • An experimental study of the reproductive behaviour and success of farmed and wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

    I.A. Fleming;B. Jonsson;M.R. Gross;A. Lamberg

  • BREEDING COMPETITION IN A PACIFIC SALMON (COHO: ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH): MEASURES OF NATURAL AND SEXUAL SELECTION.

    Ian A. Fleming;Mart R. Gross

  • Genetic divergence and interactions in the wild among native, farmed and hybrid Atlantic salmon

    S. Einum;I. A. Fleming

  • Experimental tests of genetic divergence of farmed from wild Atlantic salmon due to domestication

    I. A. Fleming;S. Einum

  • Implications of Stocking: Ecological Interactions Between Wild and Released Salmonids

    Sigurd Einum;Ian A. Fleming

  • BREEDING SUCCESS OF HATCHERY AND WILD COHO SALMON (ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH) IN COMPETITION

    Ian A. Fleming;Mart R. Gross

  • Phenotypic Divergence of Sea-ranched, Farmed, and Wild Salmon

    Ian A. Fleming;Bror Jonsson;Mart R. Gross

  • Effects of domestication on growth physiology and endocrinology of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

    Ian A Fleming;Thorleifur Agustsson;Bengt Finstad;Jörgen I Johnsson

  • Effects of early experience on the reproductive performance of Atlantic salmon

    Ian A. Fleming;Anders Lamberg;Bror Jonsson

  • Does early growth cause a phenotypically plastic response in egg production of Atlantic Salmon

    N. Jonsson;B. Jonsson;I. A. Fleming

  • Behavioural and heart rate responses to predation risk in wild and domesticated Atlantic salmon

    Jörgen I Johnsson;Johan Höjesjö;Ian A Fleming

  • Genetic and ecological effects of salmon farming on wild salmon: modelling from experimental results

    Kjetil Hindar;Ian A. Fleming;Philip McGinnity;Ola Diserud

Frequent Co-Authors

Sigurd Einum
Sigurd Einum Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Bror Jonsson
Bror Jonsson Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Mart R. Gross
Mart R. Gross University of Toronto
J. Brian Dempson
J. Brian Dempson Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Michael Power
Michael Power University of Waterloo
Kjetil Hindar
Kjetil Hindar Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Jörgen I. Johnsson
Jörgen I. Johnsson University of Gothenburg
Gunilla Rosenqvist
Gunilla Rosenqvist Uppsala University
Eva B. Thorstad
Eva B. Thorstad Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Doris Soto
Doris Soto Austral University of Chile

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