Aquaculture is currently the fastest growing animal food production sector and will soon
supply more than half of the world's seafood for human consumption. Continued growth in …

Polyploids can be defined as organisms with one or more additional chromosome sets with
respect to the number most frequently found in nature for a given species. Triploids …

The American Fisheries Society (AFS), the American Society of Ichthyologists and
Herpetologists (ASIH), and the American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists (AIFRB) are …

Providing a broad and readable overview of the subject, this updated fourth edition of
Aquaculture: An Introductory Text covers issues associated with sustainable aquaculture …

Effective population size (Ne) is a key parameter of population genetics. However, Ne
remains challenging to estimate for natural populations as several factors are likely to bias …

Most animal species show detectable genetic differentiation between populations, but the
extent and pattern of this differentiation varies considerably between species. Some show …

A large number of species and taxa have been studied for genetic polymorphism.
Microsatellites have been known as hypervariable neutral molecular markers with the …

In recent years, the land area under agriculture has declined as also has the rate of growth
in agricultural productivity while the demand for food continues to escalate. The world …

Allozymes and microsatellite loci were used to characterise the levels and patterns of
genetic variation in four successive mass selection lines of Tasmanian hatchery produced …

The blue mussel Mytilus edulis is a commercially important species whose fishery and
culture generally relies on natural spat collection. Hatchery-production could provide an …