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John Bernard Taggart

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University of Stirling

Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and AnimalsGenetic diversity and population structureGenetic and phenotypic traits in livestockReproductive biology and impacts on aquatic speciesAquaculture disease management and microbiota

John Bernard Taggart works in Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Genetic diversity and population structure, Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species, Aquaculture disease management and microbiota. Recorded institutional associations include University of Stirling.

237Publications
9,448Citations
53H-index

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Selected research works

Up to 100 highly cited works; DOI links open the original research. Counts reflect the collected record, not real-time citation totals.

  1. Fitness reduction and potential extinction of wild populations of Atlantic salmon,Salmo salar, as a result of interactions with escaped farm salmon

    2003 · 736 citations

  2. A simplified protocol for routine total DNA isolation from salmonid fishes

    1992 · 552 citations

  3. Considering adaptive genetic variation in climate change vulnerability assessment reduces species range loss projections

    2019 · 506 citations

  4. Major Quantitative Trait Loci Affect Resistance to Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis in Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar)

    2008 · 301 citations

  5. Characterization of microsatellite and minisatellite loci in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) and cross‐species amplification in other salmonids

    2000 · 241 citations

  6. Functional genomics reveals increases in cholesterol biosynthetic genes and highly unsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis after dietary substitution of fish oil with vegetable oils in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

    2008 · 235 citations

  7. Development and validation of a high density SNP genotyping array for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

    2014 · 231 citations

  8. The application of molecular markers to the study and conservation of fish populations, with special reference to Salmo

    1995 · 205 citations

  9. Genomic prediction of host resistance to sea lice in farmed Atlantic salmon populations

    2016 · 205 citations

  10. Mapping and Validation of the Major Sex-Determining Region in Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus L.) Using RAD Sequencing

    2013 · 176 citations

  11. Genotype-specific responses in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) subject to dietary fish oil replacement by vegetable oil: a liver transcriptomic analysis

    2011 · 173 citations

  12. The susceptibility of Atlantic salmon fry to freshwater infectious pancreatic necrosis is largely explained by a major QTL

    2009 · 173 citations

  13. A Linkage Map for Brown Trout (Salmo trutta): Chromosome Homeologies and Comparative Genome Organization With Other Salmonid Fish

    2006 · 171 citations

  14. Mapping the sex determination locus in the Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) using RAD sequencing

    2013 · 145 citations

  15. Post‐glacial colonization of brown trout, Salmo trutta L.: Ldh‐5 as a phylogeographic marker locus

    1989 · 144 citations

  16. Multiple genes for functional ∆6 fatty acyl desaturases (Fad) in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.): Gene and cDNA characterization, functional expression, tissue distribution and nutritional regulation

    2010 · 143 citations

  17. A comparative analysis of the rainbow trout genome with 2 other species of fish (Arctic charr and Atlantic salmon) within the tetraploid derivative Salmonidae family (subfamily: Salmoninae)

    2005 · 127 citations

  18. A novel sex-determining QTL in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)

    2015 · 122 citations

  19. Genotype Imputation To Improve the Cost-Efficiency of Genomic Selection in Farmed Atlantic Salmon

    2017 · 122 citations

  20. Characterisation of QTL-linked and genome-wide restriction site-associated DNA (RAD) markers in farmed Atlantic salmon

    2012 · 120 citations

  21. FAP: an exclusion‐based parental assignment program with enhanced predictive functions

    2006 · 111 citations

  22. Genetic differentiation among the sympatric brown trout (Salmo trutta) populations of Lough Melvin, Ireland

    1991 · 110 citations

  23. Effects of genotype and dietary fish oil replacement with vegetable oil on the intestinal transcriptome and proteome of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

    2012 · 105 citations

  24. Genetic variation in Irish populations of brown trout (Salmo trutta L.): electrophoretic analysis of allozymes

    1981 · 103 citations

  25. A new SNP-based vision of the genetics of sex determination in European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax)

    2015 · 102 citations

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