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Melissa  Milligan
                        National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center

                        




                        
                        Biological Science Lab Technician
                        Phone: (207) 422-2726
                        
                        
                        Fax: (207) 422-2723(Employee information on this page comes from the REE Directory. Please contact your front office staff to update the REE Directory.)
                            **Publications**
                                                (Clicking on the reprint icon
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                                                    will take you to the publication reprint.)Genetic architecture and accuracy of predicted genomic breeding values for sea lice resistance in the St John River aquaculture strain of North American Atlantic salmon
                                                        

- (Peer Reviewed Journal)Vallejo, R.L., Pietrak, M.R., Milligan, M.T., Gao, G., Tsuruta, S., Fragomeni, B.O., Long, R., Peterson, B.C., Palti, Y. 2024. Genetic architecture and accuracy of predicted genomic breeding values for sea lice resistance in the St John River aquaculture strain of North American Atlantic salmon. Aquaculture. 586:740819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2024.740819.The generation of the first chromosome-level de-novo genome assembly and the development and validation of a 50K SNP array for the St John River aquaculture strain of North American Atlantic salmon
                                                        

- (Peer Reviewed Journal)Gao, G., Waldbieser, G.C., Ramey, Y.C., Zaho, D., Pietrak, M.R., Stannard, J.A., Buchman, J.T., Scheffler, B.E., Peterson, B.C., Palti, Y., Rexroad III, C.E., Long, R., Burr, G.S., Milligan, M.T. 2023. The generation of the first chromosome-level de-novo genome assembly and the development and validation of a 50K SNP array for the St John River aquaculture strain of North American Atlantic salmon. G3, Genes/Genomes/Genetics. jkad138. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkad138.


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