Harnessing genomics to fast-track genetic improvement in aquaculture

RD Houston, TP Bean, DJ Macqueen… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Aquaculture is the fastest-growing farmed food sector and will soon become the primary
source of fish and shellfish for human diets. In contrast to crop and livestock production …
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D Robledo, C Palaiokostas, L Bargelloni… - Reviews in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Selective breeding is increasingly recognized as a key component of sustainable production
of aquaculture species. The uptake of genomic technology in aquaculture breeding has …

Restriction site-associated DNA sequencing (RAD-seq) reveals an extraordinary number of transitions among gecko sex-determining systems

T Gamble, J Coryell, T Ezaz, J Lynch… - Molecular Biology …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Sex chromosomes have evolved many times in animals and studying these replicate
evolutionary “experiments” can help broaden our understanding of the general forces …

A high quality assembly of the Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) genome reveals the structure of two sex determination regions

MA Conte, WJ Gammerdinger, KL Bartie, DJ Penman… - BMC genomics, 2017 - Springer
Background Tilapias are the second most farmed fishes in the world and a sustainable
source of food. Like many other fish, tilapias are sexually dimorphic and sex is a …

Genetic architecture of sex determination in fish: applications to sex ratio control in aquaculture

P Martínez, AM Viñas, L Sánchez, N Díaz… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Controlling the sex ratio is essential in finfish farming. A balanced sex ratio is usually good
for broodstock management, since it enables to develop appropriate breeding schemes …

Sex control in fish: approaches, challenges and opportunities for aquaculture

AM Budd, QQ Banh, JA Domingos… - Journal of Marine Science …, 2015 - mdpi.com
At present, aquaculture is the fastest growing sector of animal food production and holds
great potential as a sustainable solution for world food security. The ability to control sex is …

Research advances in the genomics and applications for molecular breeding of aquaculture animals

X You, X Shan, Q Shi - Aquaculture, 2020 - Elsevier
High-throughput sequencing technologies have been extensively applied to genetics and
breeding in the aquaculture industry. To date, many aquaculture animal genomes have …

The reversible sex of gonochoristic fish: insights and consequences

JF Baroiller, H d'Cotta - Sexual Development, 2016 - karger.com
Fish sex reversal is a means to understand sex determination and differentiation, but it is
also used to control sex in aquaculture. This review discusses sex reversal in gonochoristic …

The role of Amh signaling in teleost fish–multiple functions not restricted to the gonads

F Pfennig, A Standke, HO Gutzeit - General and Comparative …, 2015 - Elsevier
This review summarizes the important role of Anti-Müllerian hormone (Amh) during gonad
development in fishes. This Tgfβ-domain bearing hormone was named after one of its …