Aquaculture and fisheries biotechnology : genetic approaches /
The genetic improvement of fish for aquaculture and related fisheries is a field of research that has seen considerable advance. This book examines the area and should be of interest to advanced students and researchers in animal genetics, fish biology and aquaculture.
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| Language: | English |
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Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK :
CABI,
2004.
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess |
Table of Contents:
- History of genetic biotechnology in aquaculture and fisheries
- Phenotypic variation and environmental effects
- Polyploidy
- Gynogenesis, androgenesis, cloned populations and nuclear transplantation
- Sex reversal and breeding
- Biochemical and molecular markers
- Population genetics and interactions of hatchery and wild fish
- Gene mapping, quantitative trait locus mapping and marker-assisted selection
- Gene expression, isolation and cloning
- Gene-transfer technology
- Combining genetic enhancement programmes
- Genotype-environment interactions
- Environmental risk of aquatic organisms from genetic biotechnology
- Food safety of transgenic aquatic organisms
- A case example : safety of consumption of transgenic salmon potentially containing elevated levels of growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor
- Government regulation of transgenic fish
- Commercial application of fish biotechnology
- Strategies for genetic conservation, gene banking and maintaining genetic quality
- Constraints and limitations of genetic biotechnology.