Selective breeding is increasingly recognized as a key component of sustainable production
of aquaculture species. The uptake of genomic technology in aquaculture breeding has …

Infectious and parasitic diseases generate large economic losses in salmon farming. A
feasible and sustainable alternative to prevent disease outbreaks may be represented by …

Background Sea lice have significant negative economic and welfare impacts on marine
Atlantic salmon farming. Since host resistance to sea lice has a substantial genetic …

Growth is a polygenic and environmentally controlled trait with the most influential genes
being those of growth hormone (GH) and insulin‐like growth factor‐I (IGF‐I), as they consist …

High-throughput sequencing technologies have been extensively applied to genetics and
breeding in the aquaculture industry. To date, many aquaculture animal genomes have …

Piscirickettsia salmonis is one of the main infectious diseases affecting coho salmon
(Oncorhynchus kisutch) farming, and current treatments have been ineffective for the control …

Application of high‐throughput sequencing platforms in the field of ecology and evolutionary
biology is developing quickly with the introduction of efficient methods to reduce genome …

The northern pike is the most frequently studied member of the Esociformes, the closest
order to the diverse and economically important Salmoniformes. The ancestor of all …

Gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) is a species of paramount importance to the
Mediterranean aquaculture industry, with an annual production exceeding 140,000 metric …

High density genetic linkage maps are essential for QTL fine mapping, comparative
genomics and high quality genome sequence assembly. In this study, we constructed a high …