Aquaculture has made an enormous contribution to the world food production, especially to
the sustainable supply of animal proteins. The utility of diverse reproduction strategies 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 …

Fish species that have external fertilization can be reproduced by induced parthenogenesis.
The nuclear content of either the sperm or egg is destroyed by UV or gamma irradiation, and …

The half-smooth tongue sole (Cynoglossus semilaevis) is an important cultured marine fish
as well as a promising model fish for the study of sex determination mechanisms. In the …

Haematological features were compared between diploid and triploid specimens of the ray-
finned fish Umbrina cirrosa. No significant differences between diploids and triploids were …

This review provides a general view on teleost germline development using primordial germ
cells (PGCs) or spermatogonia (SG), highlighting recent progress in research on these two …

Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) is an important aquaculture species in China even in
the world, and the production of mono-female population can effectively increase its yield as …

Reproduction by mitotic gynogenesis was carried out in European sea bass, Dicentrarchus
labrax L., by fertilizing eggs from three normal and one meiotic gynogenetic females with UV …

The artificial gynogenesis technique has been proven to be an effective genetic tool and has
been widely used in fish breeding. The evaluation of the genetic basis of the artificial …

Chromosome manipulation, such as gynogenetic induction, is an effective method in fish to
quickly obtain high inbreeding coefficient which is useful for genetic breeding. Based on …