As feed accounts for a significant proportion of a farm's expenditure, animal nutrition is one
of the key profit determinants. Attributed to the size-dependent market value, enhancing …

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

Background Due to the great advantages in selection accuracy and efficiency, genomic
selection (GS) has been widely studied in livestock, crop and aquatic animals. Our previous …

White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) is the most damaging pathogen in terms of production
and economic losses for the shrimp sector world-wide. Estimation of heritability for WSSV …

The uses of breeding programs for the Pacific white shrimp [Penaeus (Litopenaeus)
vannamei] based on mixed linear models with pedigreed data are described. The …

Aquaculture production comprises a diverse range of species, geographies, and farming
systems. The application of genetics and breeding technologies towards improved …

The Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) is the most widely cultured shrimp in the
world. A great attention has been paid to improve its body weight (BW) at harvest through …

Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) are of particular economic importance to the
global shrimp aquaculture industry. However, limited genomics information is available for …

Abstract The Pacific white shrimp Litopeneaus vannmei (L. vannmei) is a predominant
aquaculture shrimp species worldwide, and it is considered as the aquaculture species with …

Genetic parameters and response to selection were estimated for harvest body weight of the
giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii using a fully pedigreed synthetic …