Skip to main content
ARS Home » Northeast Area » Orono, Maine » National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center » People & Locations » Melissa Milligan

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 Reprint Icon 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 Reprint Icon - (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 Reprint Icon - (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.