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Name: Bill Young
Department: Biological Sciences
Credentials: 1996~Ph.D. Washington State University-Zoology
Phone: 208-634-5290
Mailing Address: Nez Perce Tribe
Department of Fisheries Resources Mgmt
PO Box 1942
McCall, ID 83638
E-mail: billy@nezperce.org

Research Interests

Fish genetics and reproduction

Research Summary

Nez Perce Tribe, Department of Natural Resources Management Project Leader.  Lower Snake River Compensation Program and Salmonid Gamete Preservation Projects.  Snake River Basin Germplasm Repository Supervisor. Research: Life history diversity of hatchery and natural Chinook salmon and steelhead; reproductive success of naturally-reproducing hatchery and natural Chinook salmon.

Research Publications

2005-2009

Young, W.P., K. Frenyea, P.A. Wheeler and G.H. Thorgaard.  2009.  No increase in developmental deformities or fluctuating asymmetry in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) produced with cryopreserved sperm.  Aquaculture 289:13-18.

Thorgaard, G.H. B.D. Robison, P.A. Wheeler and W.P. Young,  2007.  Possible approaches for genetic analysis of temperature adaptations in redband trout. Pages 19-24 in R. K. Schroeder and J.D. Hall, editors. Redband trout: resilience and challenge in a changing landscape. Oregon Chapter, American Fisheries Society, Corvallis.

Wimp, G.M. S. Wooley, R.K. Bangert, W.P. Young, G.D. Martinsen, P. Keim, B. Rehill, R.L. Lindroth, T.G. Whitham.  2007.  Plant genetics predicts intra-annual variation in phytochemistry and arthropod community structure.  Molecular Ecology 16(23):5057-5069.

Felip, A, A. Fujiwara, W.P. Young, P.A. Wheeler, M. Noakes, R.B. Phillips, and G.H. Thorgaard. 2004. Polymorphism and differentiation of rainbow trout Y chromosomes.  Genome 47:1105-1113.


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