Aquaculture currently accounts for approximately half of all seafood produced and is the
fastest growing farmed food sector globally. Marine bivalve aquaculture, the farming of …

Oyster species suffer from numerous disease outbreaks, often causing high mortality.
Because the environment cannot be controlled, genetic improvement for disease resistance …

Oysters are one of the most commercially important shellfish species and have been
cultured for thousands of years. Oyster aquaculture supports the major aquaculture …

Bivalve molluscs are very nutritious and are an important source of human animal protein.
To date, bivalve farming has contributed to about 15% of the mean per capita animal protein …

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 …

The production of most farmed molluscs, including mussels, oysters, scallops, abalone, and
clams, is heavily dependent on natural seed from the plankton. Closing the lifecycle of …

Oysters that occupy estuarine and intertidal habitats have well-developed stress tolerance
mechanisms to tolerate harsh and dynamically changing environments. In this review, we …

Selective breeding programs have been initiated worldwide for the Pacific oyster
Crassostrea gigas to improve economically important traits such as growth and disease …

Abstract The ostreid herpesvirus 1 (OsHV-1) is one of the major pathogens affecting the
Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas, and numerous mortality outbreaks have been observed …

Generating breeding programmes that effectively improve farmed fish performance across
multiple environments and make fish more uniform within production environments would …