Potential of genomic selection for growth, meat content and colour traits in mixed-family breeding designs for the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas

A Jourdan, R Morvezen, F Enez, P Haffray, A Lange… - Aquaculture, 2023 - Elsevier
Selective breeding programs have been initiated worldwide for the Pacific oyster
Crassostrea gigas to improve economically important traits such as growth and disease …

Genomic Selection for Growth Traits in Pacific Oyster (Crassostrea gigas): Potential of Low-Density Marker Panels for Breeding Value Prediction

AP Gutierrez, O Matika, TP Bean, RD Houston - Frontiers in Genetics, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Pacific oysters are a key aquaculture species globally, and genetic improvement via
selective breeding is a major target. Genomic selection has the potential to expedite genetic …

Evaluating cost-effective genotyping strategies for genomic selection in oysters

TA Delomas, CM Hollenbeck, JL Matt, NF Thompson - Aquaculture, 2023 - Elsevier
Genomic selection has the potential to increase the rate of genetic gain in aquaculture
breeding programs by enabling selection between and within families without phenotyping …

Genetic variability of an orange-shell line of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas during artificial selection inferred from microsatellites and mitochondrial COI …

Z Han, Q Li, S Liu, H Yu, L Kong - Aquaculture, 2019 - Elsevier
Rare breeds represent a valuable resource for current or future market demands, but their
low census compromises the genetic variability and future utilization of these breeds …

Genomic signatures of artificial selection in the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas

B Hu, Y Tian, Q Li, S Liu - Evolutionary Applications, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, is an important aquaculture shellfish around
the world with great economic and ecological value. Selective breeding programs have …

Genetic Variation and Breeding Signature in Mass Selection Lines of the Pacific Oyster (Crassostrea gigas) Assessed by SNP Markers

X Zhong, D Feng, H Yu, L Kong, Q Li - Plos one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
In breeding industries, a challenging problem is how to keep genetic diversity over
generations. To investigate genetic variation and identify breeding signatures in mass …

Genetic diversity and effective population size in successive mass selected generations of black shell strain Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) based on microsatellites …

L Xu, Q Li, C Xu, H Yu, L Kong - Aquaculture, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) is one of the highly fecund marine
aquaculture species and has a large variance in reproductive success, these characteristics …

Genetic diversity in a genetically improved line of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas with orange shell based on microsatellites and mtDNA data

Y Chen, C Xu, Q Li - Aquaculture, 2022 - Elsevier
The shell color is of interest to the shellfish industry and has been regarded as a target trait
for a better commercial value. Based on an inbred variant line of the Pacific oyster …

Estimates of Heritability for Growth and Shell Color Traits and Their Genetic Correlations in the Black Shell Strain of Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas

L Xu, Q Li, H Yu, L Kong - Marine Biotechnology, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas has been introduced widely and massively
and became an economically important aquaculture species on a global scale. We …

Improvements in desirable traits of the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, as a result of five generations of selection on the West Coast, USA

CMR de Melo, E Durland, C Langdon - Aquaculture, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, is one of the most important global
aquaculture species due to its potential high growth rates and tolerance of a wide range of …