A meta‐analysis of sex differences in animal personality: no evidence for the greater male variability hypothesis

LM Harrison, DWA Noble, MD Jennions - Biological Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The notion that men are more variable than women has become embedded into scientific
thinking. For mental traits like personality, greater male variability has been partly attributed …

Use and exchange of genetic resources of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)

AE Eknath, G Hulata - Reviews in Aquaculture, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The worldwide use of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus Linnaeus, 1758) in aquaculture
represents a somewhat unique scenario. The natural distributions and global genetic …

The consequences of feminization in breeding groups of wild fish

CA Harris, PB Hamilton, TJ Runnalls… - Environmental …, 2011 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background The feminization of nature by endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) is a key
environmental issue affecting both terrestrial and aquatic wildlife. A crucial and as yet …

[PDF][PDF] La importancia del uso de paneles solares en la generación de energía eléctrica

G Arencibia-Carballo - REDVET. Revista Electrónica de Veterinaria, 2016 - redalyc.org
Comencemos con algunas cifras. En 2011 los sistemas de energía solar en el mundo
generaron 85 teravatios/hora de electricidad, que son suficientes para cubrir las …

Parentage assignment with genomic markers: a major advance for understanding and exploiting genetic variation of quantitative traits in farmed aquatic animals

M Vandeputte, P Haffray - Frontiers in genetics, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Since the middle of the 1990s, parentage assignment using microsatellite markers has been
introduced as a tool in aquaculture breeding. It now allows close to 100% assignment …

Selective breeding in fish and conservation of genetic resources for aquaculture

CE Lind, RW Ponzoni, NH Nguyen… - … in domestic animals, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Content To satisfy increasing demands for fish as food, progress must occur towards greater
aquaculture productivity whilst retaining the wild and farmed genetic resources that underpin …

Heritability of harvest growth traits and genotype–environment interactions in barramundi, Lates calcarifer (Bloch)

JA Domingos, C Smith-Keune, N Robinson… - Aquaculture, 2013 - Elsevier
Due to its popularity as a food fish, rapid growth and wide environmental tolerances,
barramundi, Lates calcarifer, production levels are increasing worldwide and breeding …

Nile Tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (Teleostei: Cichlidae): a threat to native fishes of Lake Malawi?

JR Stauffer Jr, ER Chirwa, W Jere, AF Konings… - Biological …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Nile Tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus, is a freshwater cichlid indigenous to the
tropical and subtropical parts of the eastern and western Africa and is being cultured in the …

Newly discovered cichlid fish biodiversity threatened by hybridization with non‐native species

T Blackwell, AGP Ford, AG Ciezarek… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Invasive freshwater fishes are known to readily hybridize with indigenous congeneric
species, driving loss of unique and irreplaceable genetic resources. Here we reveal that …

Spatial and temporal variation in population genetic structure of wild Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) across Africa

E Bezault, P Balaresque, A Toguyeni, Y Fermon… - BMC genetics, 2011 - Springer
Background Reconstructing the evolutionary history of a species is challenging. It often
depends not only on the past biogeographic and climatic events but also the contemporary …